First published in 1922, the account has remained in print ever since its publication. He referred to the winter sledging trip as the 'worst journey in the world', and gave the same title to his book. The party had to man haul their sledges in almost total darkness and extreme temperatures as low as -70 degrees F. The party, led by Dr Edward Wilson and including ‘Birdie' Bowers, man-hauled their sledges across 60 miles of bleak terrain during the polar night to collect Emperor Penguin eggs and their embryos, to be used for research to test whether an evolutionary link existed between birds and reptiles.ĭuring the winter expedition, Cherry was hampered by bad eyesight, seeing little without the spectacles that he could not wear while sledging. Prior to Scott's attempt on the pole, Cherry was part of a bold but potentially treacherous winter journey in 1911. ‘The Worst Journey in the World,' to be aired on Sunday night at 9pm, tells the story of explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard, whose record of Captain Scott's ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition from 1910-1913 was published in 1922.Īt the age of 24, "Cherry" was one of the youngest members of Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expedition. A story of survival against all odds in the Antarctic, researched using materials held at the University of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), is to be shown as a BBC Four drama.
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