March 14th: Scott's final Antarctic expedition.

[Clodfobble]

I completely agree with all of that, Sundae. The exploration itself was/is amazing, as are the photos. But are the physical film negatives, which are going to be gone eventually anyway, worth several hundred thousand, above and beyond the images which we will continue to have for everyone to admire? Would it not be better to put that money towards new and future scientific endeavors?

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I completely agree with all of that, Sundae. The exploration itself was/is amazing, as are the photos. But are the physical film negatives, which are going to be gone eventually anyway, worth several hundred thousand, above and beyond the images which we will continue to have for everyone to admire? Would it not be better to put that money towards new and future scientific endeavors?

No
(That's where the being sentimental part comes in.)

I respect your logic.
But it's heart not head for me in this. I would pay a ridiculous amount of money for something from the Winter Journey. And if it was a shovel it would just be a shovel, and one I could not even use. Except during a Zombie Apocalypse, Shaun of the Dead stylee.

So to me, owning the negatives is important.
And I accept it probably doesn't make sense

[Carruthers]

Captain Scott's 'lost' Antarctic pictures saved for the nation

A Cambridge University museum has successfully raised more than a quarter of a million pounds to buy a collection of photo negatives of Captain Scott's doomed South Pole expedition

Previously unseen images of Captain Scott on his ill-fated polar expedition have been saved for the nation after a major fundraising campaign.

A mystery owner gave Cambridge University until March 25 to raise £275,000 to buy the photo negatives before they were put up for auction, which would almost certainly have seen them snapped up by a foreign bidder and lost to Britain and the public forever.

The Polar Museum at Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) has now raised the funds to keep the 113 images which were taken towards the end of 1911 just weeks before Captain Scott’s final Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole ran into disaster.

The collection is described as an "extraordinary visual record" of the trek during which Scott and his four companions died on their return from being beaten to the Earth’s southernmost point by Norwegian Roald Amundsen.

Daily Telegraph

Usual spiel about the DT website.

From memory, twenty free articles per month. A friend tells me that clearing your cache and deleting cookies might 'help'. I really will have to speak to the chap. He's most disreputable.