Ernest Shackleton

Frank Hurley and Ernest Shackleton at the stove on the floe Hurley, left in the cap, crouches beside a stove made from old oil drums while Shackleton sits in a broad-brimmed hat on the other side, with a tent and a lifeboat behind. Accounts differ on the camp: Shackleton's book South places it at Patience Camp, while the State Library of New South Wales lantern slide labels it Ocean Camp. Either way it is the expedition at its plainest: the leader and the photographer, unshaven, keeping a fire going on the ice.