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Huge Ice Bastions of the Castle Berg (Clissold), September 17 1911

Herbert Ponting (1870-1935)

Price
£2,500
Signed
Stamped with Scott Polar Research Institute Blind stamp and numbered 2/30 on reverse
Medium
Platinum print
Provenance
The Anthony Wylam Collection

Printed on 20 x 14 inch paper
From an edition of 30

Framed

17th September 1911

Ponting named this ice formation ‘Castle Berg’. He persuaded Thomas Clissold to pose for him, but at one point, the cook fell and suffered a concussion, giving Ponting a considerable fright. The injury sustained was serious enough to prevent Clissold from accompanying the motor party on the early stage of the Southern Journey.

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