100 years since Scott’s journey
Curator Kay Smith says the story of Scott and his men is solitary of immense pluckiness. Photo: Debenham and Taylor on the ice, December 20, 1910.
It includes images shot by photographer Herbert Ponting, single of the finest photographers of the 20th century. Photo: Scotts team encountering an ice cave.
The pictures were taken to illustrate lecture tours on the groups return, to help finance the expedition. Photo: Penguins frolicking by an iceberg.