The photos left by destiny takes a hand's trip to Antarctica.

"Great God! 191265438+1October 17, British captain Robert Falcken Scott wrote in his diary when he arrived in the Antarctic. He is not happy. " "This is a terrible place," he continued. It was terrible enough for us, so we went without giving priority to the reward. "

The southernmost tip of related content: the news from the single Victorian female Antarctic explorer "Dark Energy: The Biggest Mystery in the Universe" cindy sherman: the big news of the girl in Monument Valley. In more than two months, Scott and his men set out from their base camp in McMurdo Bay, Antarctica, dragging 800 miles of ice, hoping to be the first people to reach the North Pole. However, the left picture taken by Captain herry bowers that day clearly illustrates Scott's despair: the Norwegian flag flying above the tent was left by Roald Amundsen, an explorer, and his party arrived five weeks ago. In the tent, Scott's men found a letter from Amundsen to Norwegian King haakon vii and a note for Scott to deliver the letter for him.

Even if you don't know what will happen next, Bowles' photos convey a feeling of failure. Men have no arm-in-arm friendship. Their faces are weather-beaten. I can't see the supplies. In fact, Scott and his four men were running out of food and fuel in the final sprint of 150 mile. Their return trip will be one of the most frustrating failures in the history of polar exploration.

At the end of summer in Antarctica, these people encountered an unusually cold temperature of MINUS 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and the snowstorm finally made them stay in tents for a few days. Sergeant edgar evans died on February 65438, 2007. The cause of death may be a head injury caused by falling into a crack. Due to lack of resources, Captain lawrence oates made a famous sacrifice: he was disabled by frostbite. He left the party tent in the snowstorm on March 16, and it said, "I'm going out, maybe for a while."

In the following year165438+1October, a search and rescue team came to the last camp in Scott, only1/mile away from a material warehouse. The tent contains the remains of Scott, Bowles and Edward Wilson, the chief scientist of the expedition. Scott's diary was there, too, and the last record was March 29, with 35 pounds of geological samples and Bowles' undeveloped film. David M. Wilson, a descendant of Edward Wilson and the author of the recently published book The Lost Photo of Captain Scott, said that Bowles' photo proved that both Scott and Amundsen had reached the acme.

Bowles' straightforward work is in sharp contrast to Herbert Ponting, who was hired by photographer Scott to record his adventures. Pang Ting traveled widely in Asia and sold his works to famous magazines in London. Scott's mission made him the first professional photographer to work in Antarctica. The picture on this page shows Ponting's artistry: it captures the texture of ice, water and clouds in a perfectly balanced position with Scott's spaceship "New Era" as the background. Scott described this scene with his sensitivity to art and nature: "This is really a crack on an inclined iceberg, parallel to the original surface ... you can see it through a larger entrance, or you can partially cross icicles, ships, western hills and lavender sky.

The pontoon bridge didn't pull Scott to the telephone pole, etc. His equipment is considered too heavy. According to the plan, he left Antarctica for England in February 19 12, and Scott and his men are still struggling to get back to their hometown. At first, the news of Scott's fate eclipsed Ponting's photos, but after the First World War, the photographer published his works in a book called Great White Sharks in the South, which won great praise. Wilson wrote in an email: "All subsequent Antarctic photography is a footnote to his pioneering work."

Together, these two photos reflect the two poles of Scott's exploration; Although the words and images left by Gedi, Scott and his men have become the eternal legacy of science and art, as Scott pointed out in his last diary, "these rough notes and our bodies" will tell his story. Amundsen planted the national flag, but it was Scott who inspired our imagination.

Victoria Olson wrote the last photo of francis benjamin Johnston for the Smithsonian Museum.