Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Football on the floe, 1915, with Endurance beset behind A loose game spread across the snow, two men tangled over the ball in the middle and a goalkeeper crouched between a pair of poles stuck in the ice, while the ship sits locked in the pack on the horizon. Games like this helped pass the months of waiting for the ice to let her go. It is the most cheerful frame in the set, taken while the men still had a ship to go back to.