Bozeman couple drive self-reliant travel hands-on training at XOverland Ranch

A black-and-white photo of men struggling to pull a lifeboat across the ice decorates a large wall inside XOverland Ranch’s headquarters, called the Roadhouse, north of Three Forks.

The men were crew members aboard the ship Endurance on the ill-fated Antarctic expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton in the early 1900s. The ship was trapped in ice and sank, temporarily stranding the crew until a miraculous ocean crossing in the ship’s three lifeboats led to the crew’s rescue.