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As a new biography shows, Ponting s extraordinary photographs sealed the legend of Scott s doomed expedition
20 February 2021 • 12:00pm
Black and white stories: Ponting s image of Thomas Clissold and an Emperor penguin, Antarctica, 1910
Credit: Herbert Ponting
What is it like to photograph in Antarctica? Well, be careful of your tongue. In 1911, Herbert Ponting, the photographer on Captain Scott’s doomed Terra Nova expedition, absent-mindedly licked his lips while his face was pressed against the camera. Touching the bare metal, his tongue “froze fast instantaneously; and to release myself I had to jerk it away, leaving the skin of the end of my tongue sticking to my camera, and my mouth bled so profusely that I had to gag it with a handkerchief”.
The mystery of Antarctica s Blood Falls
Of all the sights in Antarctica, a kind of blood-red waterfall isn t one you d necessarily expect to find. DW s Global Ideas takes a look at the mystery behind this natural phenomenon.
It s a bizarre sight not out of place in a horror or science fiction movie: a reddish liquid seeps out of the side of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica.
Blood Falls, as the phenomenon is known, has fascinated scientists since Griffith Taylor, a geologist on Captain Robert F. Scott s doomed Antarctic expedition, discovered it a century ago, according to the US National Science Foundation.