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Herbert George Ponting, FRGS (21 March 1870 – 7 February 1935) was a professional photographer. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott 's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). [1]
Mar 20, 2022 · In early 1893 Ponting, after a stormy trans-Atlantic crossing, travelled by train to the so-called ‘Golden State’, where he cultivated peaches and grapes, prospected for minerals, became a ‘crack shot’ and honed his photographic and mountaineering skills, including in Yosemite.
Aug 30, 2018 · Herbert George Ponting, FRPS, (21 March 1870 – 7 February 1935) is most well-known for his photographs and cinematographs of Scott’s Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13, now hailed as some of the most iconic images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Jul 14, 2017 · Pictures captured by photographer Herbert Ponting in the early 20th century show the coldest continent before climate change took hold.
Mar 29, 2024 · The story of his tragic race to the South Pole in 1912 – when Scott was narrowly beaten by the Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen and then died on his return journey – is one of the best known from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.
Herbert G. Ponting was one of the most renowned photographers of his day when he was recruited as ‘camera-artist’ to the British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition, 1910-1913. At that time he captured some of the most remarkable pictures of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
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Herbert Ponting was already a world travelling, pioneering photographer and travel writer when, in 1909, he met British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912). Impressed with Ponting’s credentials and manner, Scott asked him to document his expedition to the South Pole – the most elusive prize of exploration at that time.
