In 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the
youngest survivors of Captain Scott’s ill-fated attempt to reach the South
Pole, published his memoir of the expedition. The Worst Journey in the
World humanised the epic tragedy with its sensitive observations of the
men involved and evocative descriptions of Antarctic life.
A century later, this classic of travel
literature is being adapted into a series of graphic novels by Disney veteran
Sarah Airriess, who has spent over a decade researching the expedition in order
to tell the story completely and faithfully. The personalities of the men, and
the science they undertook, are equally as important to understanding the story
as the famous feats of exploration.
Sarah trained as an animator in Canada and has worked in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and London. At 26, she heard a radio dramatisation of The Worst Journey in the World, which led to throwing away her career and moving to England to make the graphic novel. She went to Antarctica in 2019 with the NSF’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, and is currently an Institute Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge.
Further information is available about this ground breaking (or perhaps "ice breaking" would be a more appropriate term) graphic novel here.
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