Baby Jessica/Shackleton

In 1987, hundreds of volunteers saved 18-month-old Jessica McClure, who had fallen down an abandoned well. Then, we look at the legendary survival exploits of Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated mission to the Antarctic.

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