Shackleton’s Antarctica in colour, 1915

South is one of the greatest true-to-life adventure stories ever written. I heard a few years back some famous underwater explorer was contemplating diving to the wreck of the Endurance. Hurley left behind a number of glass plate negatives, which still may be salvageable, supposedly.

I'm not sure if I would choose to showcase an expedition to Antarctica in 1915 in color.

Excellent images. For anyone even remotely interested in the topic, the film “South”, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198559/, is comprised of hauntingly awesome actual video footage of the ill-fated 1914-1916 voyage. I believe there's also an enhanced version of the material (with re-enactments &c.) but I haven't seen that one.

Their server's taking a beating it seems, but Google Cache has it - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YOhLK7I...

These are eerily beautiful. Any idea where I could find hi-res versions?