15th of July
Historical Antarctic Pictures and Events
1911 - Wilson, Bowers and Cherry-Gerrard reached Cape Crozier on Ross Island after 19 long, dark days! The ‘Winter Journey’, a component of Captain Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 - was planned by Dr Edward Wilson and was later referred to as the ‘Worst Journey in the World’. Wilson led a party of three, with Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers and Apsley Cherry-Gerrard, from Cape Evans to Cape Crozier on Ross Island. They made the return journey of almost 100 kilometres during complete 24-hour darkness and plummeting winter temperatures of below -60? – all to collect emperor penguin eggs!
“The horror of the 19 days it took us to travel from Cape Evans to Cape Crozier would have to be reexperienced to be appreciated; and anyone would be a fool who went again.” – Apsley Cherry-Gerrard
?? Wilson, Bowers and Cherry-Gerrard eating a well-deserved meal upon their return from Cape Crozier during the ‘Worst Journey in the World’