cold boys!

[wretchedponies]

contemplating whether to email this retired professor of medicine to ask if i can pretty please have his dataset on donner party deaths so i can use it in my survival cannibalism stats,,,, do i rlly want my name under which all future for real scientific work will be published attached to that. lmao

[gemlikeabovethebay]

"Shackleton's Snow-Covered Hut at Cape Royds" 1908 or 1909 George Edward Marston (1882-1940) Oil on board

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

which arctic expedition is the most fuckable

Franklin

Polaris

Greely

Jeannette

Fram (any of them)

Grinnell (Either of them)

Howgate

Secret other one I missed because damn there are a lot

Remaining time: 2 days 3 hours

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

Wait okay if you selected the secret one you have to tell me which. Like who was it. Why. Make your case

[packloafer]

this meme going around made me think of them

[georgeslecointe]

me after fifteen months in the ladyless south: “hear me out” gestures at an iceberg

[fromthetombs]

"Fine Dark Stripe" by Rosemary Norman

[ltwilliammowett]

The Discovery, near Mount Erebus, by John Hamilton (1919-1993)

[jelatinivan]

it's not his fault.

[hooshdinner]

[ponko game from 2023; playable if you want, art from it under the cut if you dont want to.]

[dedicatedfolloweroffashion]

Made this instead of writing my diss xx

[johntorrington]

the SY aurora is one of my favorite polar ships because at no point was she truly having a good time

[johntorrington]

SY aurora greatest hits:

-took place in the relief efforts for the incredibly doomed greely expedition

-leaving douglas mawson behind in antarctica for another year after he just got back from the far eastern party debacle

-getting stuck in the ice for the better part of a year and stranding the ross sea party on the shore

-going missing with her 21 crew members in 1917 and leaving nothing behind except a single life belt

[arthistorydaily]

The Freezing of the Sea, Antarctica, Herbert G. Ponting , 1911

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Provenance: Samuel Wagstaff, Jr., American, 1921 - 1987, sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1984.

75.3 × 59.8 cm (29 5/8 × 23 9/16 in.)

Herbert George Ponting ( 1870 – 1935) was a professional photographer. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). As a member of the shore party in he helped set up the winter camp at Cape Evans which included a tiny darkroom where Ponting preferred to take high-quality images on glass plates.

[text source: @wikipedia]

[polarpics]

[tiredkaiju]

Love reading polar explorers’ diaries. Like, you don’t have to go. You don’t have to be here. You chose this. You keep on choosing this. What else could you possibly expect besides this

[22ratonthestreet]

@jacquelying yeah

[afbcb]

[noncensitive]

@ltwilliammowett

[freshydip]

“hey can we please have a normal conversation at dinner tonight.”

“what do you mean?”

“i mean can you please not bring up… y’know…..”

“no, i don’t know. what shouldn’t i bring up??”

“…forget it. i’m sure it’ll be fine.”

[2 hours later]

“—and the really interesting thing isn’t just that Dr. Cook figured out how to give the men of the Belgica antiscorbutics in their diet while they were trapped in the Antarctic, but that he also had the idea of light therapy by effectively prescribing the men who’d endured months of pure darkness to stand in front of a roaring fire. He didn’t just keep the men alive, he kept them from losing their minds entirely. It’s no wonder that Roald Amundsen felt so drawn to him—“