Adventurer Tim Jarvis arrives home to the welcome of his wife Elizabeth and sons Will, 4, and Jack, 20 months. Picture: Greg Higgs Source: adelaidenow
HE has recreated the "the greatest survival story of all time", travelled 1500km in a tiny boat with five other men and suffered frostbite, but there's no time to rest for Adelaide adventurer Tim Jarvis.
He now has just two months to write 70,000 words for a hardback book for international release, while a three-part film will be produced, both to reach the market in September.
Mr Jarvis at times doubted he would succeed in emulating Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic 1916 voyage, 1500km in a tiny 100-year-old boat through mountainous Antarctic seas, before climbing across the remote island of South Georgia.
"I'm enjoying being back and thawing out my foot," Mr Jarvis said, referring to his bout of frostbite.
"It didn't stop me doing what I was going to do."
Tim Jarvis holds some of the authentic period equipment he used - watch, goggles and binoculars. Picture: Greg Higgs
The 12-day trip on the Southern Ocean in a 7m lifeboat, and another three days crossing the mountainous interior of South Georgia Island, cost $2 million.
The lion's share related to making the film about the expedition.
"The book will be a great read because a lot of things happened and it was the toughest trip I've ever done," he said.
"Sailing a 100-year-old boat through the roughest ocean in the world, trying to land it on South Georgia Island's treacherous coastline and then climbing across the island with virtually no gear was not easy.
Antarctic explorer Tim Jarvis recreates the famous 1912 expedition by South Australian Sir Douglas Mawson and made a movie so others can share the experience. Photograph by Frederique Olivier Screen Australia.
"Several times we feared we wouldn't make it."
Mr Jarvis, 46, of Malvern, said there are always moments on any trip when you question whether you are going to be able to do it.
"On this trip, we had several storms in the Southern Ocean, heavy fog the day we reached South Georgia and then gale force winds and blizzards in its mountainous interior while travelling through heavily crevassed terrain," he said.
"All of which had me thinking on several occasions that 'I don't know if we will make it'."
Members of the expedition recreating Earnest Shackleton's epic journey come ashore at rugged South Georgia. Picture; AFP
"But we did and in a take on Shackleton's motto, 'By endurance we conquered', because it was just hard work from start to finish."
The Shackleton journey was described as the greatest survival story of all time by mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
Aside from the book, he also has to go back to his environmental work for leading environmental engineering firm ARUP, while he is also keen to put a lot of energy into the Shackleton Epic Leadership Round Table and the 28 corporate leaders it attracts.
"I'm hoping to get the round table's high-powered members to focus on making real progress on pressing social and environmental issues. In return we will provide a unique insight into Shackleton's leadership style for their employees," he said.
Expedition leader Tim Jarvis and mountaineer Barry Gray, as they departed on the final leg of journey at Peggotty Bluff in South Georgia two days ago. Picture: Jo Stewart / Shackleton Epic
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