Aurora ya bar Hobart a ranar 24 ga Disamba, 1914, bayan an jinkirta shi a Ostiraliya ta hanyar matsalolin kudi da na kungiya. Zuwansa a McMurdo Sound a ranar 15 ga Janairu, 1915 ya kasance daga baya a cikin kakar da aka tsara, amma kwamandan tawagar Aeneas Mackintosh ya yi shirye-shirye na gaggawa don tafiya a kan Ross Ice Shelf, tun da ya fahimci cewa Shackleton yana fatan ƙoƙari ya ƙetare a wannan kakar. Ba maza ko karnuka ba, kuma jam'iyyar ba ta da kwarewa a cikin yanayin kankara. Tafiya ta farko a kan kankara ta haifar da asarar karnuka goma sha takwas da kuma wani mai sanyi da aka yi da shi da kuma raunin da ya faru a gaba ɗaya; ƙungiya guda ɗaya, ba ta cika ba, ita ce kawai nasarar da suka samu.
24 ga Disamba 1914