A portrait photograph of Captain Robert F. Scott on skis, looking at the camera.
A portrait photograph of Captain Robert F. Scott on skis, looking at the camera.
Scott purchased fifty pairs of skis manufactured by the Oslo [Christiania] based sporting goods and weapons supplier L.H. Hagen & Co for the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13). Scott also recruited the Norwegian ski instructor Tryggve Gran. After practicing on the ice floe, with instruction and guidance from Gran, the expedition got to grips with their skis. Scott deemed the skis to be "well adapted to [their] purposes". This is a departure from Scott's previous expedition to the Antarctic in 1901 on which none of the expedition members were skilled skiers and skis were deemed to have "little value".
Scott purchased fifty pairs of skis manufactured by the Oslo [Christiania] based sporting goods and weapons supplier L.H. Hagen & Co for the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13). Scott also recruited the Norwegian ski instructor Tryggve Gran. After practicing on the ice floe, with instruction and guidance from Gran, the expedition got to grips with their skis. Scott deemed the skis to be "well adapted to [their] purposes". This is a departure from Scott's previous expedition to the Antarctic in 1901 on which none of the expedition members were skilled skiers and skis were deemed to have "little value".
Object Details
| ID: | LS2 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Lantern slide |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Ponting, Herbert George |
| Date made: | October 1911 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 82 mm x 82 mm |