Pulling two sleds of food and equipment, the trio trudged into gale-battered darkness. “So we started, just after midwinter, on the weirdest bird’s-nesting expedition that has ever been or ever will be,” Cherry-Garrard wrote. Photograph: Royal Geographical Society/Getty Images The trouble was that the emperor penguin lays its eggs in the Antarctic midwinter, hence the decision to make the 70-mile trip from Scott’s base camp on Ross Island to the penguin colony at Cape Crozier.Īpsley Cherry-Garrard in Antarctica for the expedition of 1910-1913. Analysis of their embryos would reveal links between all birds and their reptile predecessors. When Bowers, Cherry-Garrard and Wilson made their trip, it was thought the emperor penguin was one of the planet’s most primitive birds. “My ambition is to bring you an epic story from the pages of history in a fun and engaging way,” she says in her introduction. It remains one of the most enthralling and disturbing accounts of an expedition of any sort and its centenary is being celebrated by its being adapted into a series of graphic novels, illustrated by former Disney animator Sarah Airriess, which is being published in collaboration with the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge.
Cherry-Garrard never fully recovered from the ordeal, describing his experiences in his book, The Worst Journey in the World, which was published 100 years ago. After 35 days, the trio returned to their base camp, close to death.
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