The Worst Journey in the World: Graphic Novel

The worst journey in the world.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest survivors of Captain Scott’s ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole, published his memoir of the expedition in 1922. The Worst Journey in the World humanised the epic tragedy with its sensitive observations of the men involved and evocative descriptions of Antarctic life.

A century later, this classic of travel literature is being adapted into a series of graphic novels by Disney veteran Sarah Airriess, who has spent over a decade researching the expedition in order to tell the story completely and faithfully. The personalities of the men, and the science they undertook, are equally as important to understanding the story as the famous feats of exploration.

The book is available in the UK in London, Cambridge, and Dundee; in the US at Silver Sprocket in San Francisco, and in New Zealand via the AHT. A German translation is available via Panini. See the link above for more details. If you are a bookseller who’d like to stock it, please contact my fine publishers at Indie Novella .

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Terror in the Antarctic: graphic novels revisit the horror of the ‘worst journey in the world’

A century on from the publication of Cherry Apsley-Garrard’s classic book about Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition, a new graphic novel version revisits his terrible tale

On 27 June 1911, three men set off on a polar trip that was to earn itself a remarkable reputation. Their midwinter Antarctic expedition became known, quite simply, as the worst journey in the world.

Henry “Birdie” Bowers, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Bill Wilson – members of Robert Scott’s doomed Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic – were aiming to collect emperor penguin eggs in the middle of winter. The trip was supposed to be a scientific prelude to Scott’s thrust to the south pole. It nearly killed its participants.

For more than a month they endured blizzards and temperatures that plunged to -60C and below in the pitch black. They navigated by candlelight and stars and frequently fell into crevasses. Cherry-Garrard’s teeth chattered so violently they shattered. “Sometimes it was difficult not to howl,” he recalled.

After 35 days, the trio returned to their base camp, close to death. Cherry-Garrard never fully recovered from the ordeal, describing his experiences in his book, The Worst Journey in the World , which was published 100 years ago.

It remains one of the most enthralling and disturbing accounts of an expedition of any sort and its centenary is being celebrated by its being adapted into a series of graphic novels, illustrated by former Disney animator Sarah Airriess, which is being published in collaboration with the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. “My ambition is to bring you an epic story from the pages of history in a fun and engaging way,” she says in her introduction.

When Bowers, Cherry-Garrard and Wilson made their trip, it was thought the emperor penguin was one of the planet’s most primitive birds. Analysis of their embryos would reveal links between all birds and their reptile predecessors. The trouble was that the emperor penguin lays its eggs in the Antarctic midwinter, hence the decision to make the 70-mile trip from Scott’s base camp on Ross Island to the penguin colony at Cape Crozier.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard in Antarctica for the expedition of 1910-1913.

“So we started, just after midwinter, on the weirdest bird’s-nesting expedition that has ever been or ever will be,” Cherry-Garrard wrote. Pulling two sleds of food and equipment, the trio trudged into gale-battered darkness. The thick, cloying snow meant they could pull only one sled at time, so they hauled them in relay, gaining only one mile for every three they walked.

Every night the men had to chip their way into their frozen sleeping bags. “We began to look upon minus 50s [temperatures] as a luxury we did not often get,” Cherry-Garrard wrote. At one point, their tent was blown away and they lay in their sleeping bags without food or cover for two days until the winds receded and they were able to recover it.

Slowly they approached Cape Crozier. “We got towards the emperor penguins and it really began to look as if we were going to do it, when we came up against a wall of ice which a single glance told us we could never cross.” The men were devastated until Wilson spotting a hole in the ice they could crawl through.

One of the illustrations from The Worst Journey in the World by Sarah Airriess, based on a photograph taken during the expedition.

“Bill and Birdie rapidly collected five eggs which we hoped to carry safely in our fur mitts,” Cherry-Garrard later wrote. Two were dropped and smashed but three were saved. “We had been out for four weeks in conditions in which no man had existed previously for more than a few days, if that. During this time we had seldom slept except from sheer physical exhaustion as men sleep on the rack; and every minute of it we had been fighting for the bed-rock necessaries of bare existence and always in the dark. This journey has beggared our language: no words could express its horror.”

On the evening of 1 August, the trio made it back to the main expedition’s HQ. No one spotted them until they reached its door. “‘Good God it’s the Crozier expedition,’ said a voice and the men staggered in. Cherry looked about 30 years older than he had when he had set off, his cadaverous face scarred and corrugated, nose dark, eyes dull and hands white and wrinkled. His toenails were falling off and his fingers were useless,” Sara Wheeler notes in her biography , Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard .

The youngest member of Scott’s expeditionary team, Cherry-Garrard was physically shattered and quite unable to join the final, ill-fated journey to the pole – unlike his companions. Together with Edgar Evans and Lawrence Oates, Wilson and Bowers – led by Scott – headed off for the south pole on 1 November. They reached their destination on 17 January 1912 – to discover that they been beaten to their target by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian expedition. On the return journey, Evans and Oates perished before the other three – Scott, Bowers and Wilson – ran out of provisions as they headed back to base camp and on 20 March they could go no further and they died in their tent nine days later.

Cherry-Garrard was reunited with his old egg-hunting comrades one last time, however. In late October 1912, after the Antarctic winter had abated, he and several others set out to discover what had happened to Scott and his men. They were doubtless dead. But where were their bodies?

On 12 November, the top of a tent was spotted and Cherry-Garrard entered to find Scott at its centre. Bowers and Wilson rested on either side. They appeared at peace but Scott looked agitated, as if he had struggled to the last. The men’s skin had turned yellow and glassy in the cold.

“That scene can never leave my memory,” Cherry-Garrard recalled. “We never moved them. We took the bamboos of the tent away and the tent itself covered them. Over them we built the cairn.” The party’s leader, Edward Atkinson, read the lesson for the burial service from Corinthians. Cherry-Garrard was devastated, particularly for the loss of Wilson and Bowers. “These two men … were gold, pure, shining, unalloyed. Words cannot express how good their companionship was,” he wrote.

The expedition survivors returned to England on the Terra Nova and Cherry-Garrard presented the eggs to the Natural History Museum in London in 1913. He was made to wait in a corridor while an assistant talked to a more important person. “I handed over the Cape Crozier embryos, which nearly cost three men their lives and cost one man his health, to your museum personally and … your representative never even said thanks,” Cherry later wrote to the museum.

Atkinson, Bowers and Cherry-Garrard preparing a meal in their camp in June 1911.

Worse, the scientific rationale behind the launching of the midwinter egg-collecting expedition was evaporating even before the men set off for Antarctica . A report of the subsequent analysis of the three emperor eggs concluded they had not “added greatly to our knowledge of penguin embryology”. It was a devastating end to a tale of astonishing human endurance.

As for Cherry-Garrard’s delay in writing The Worst Journey in the World , the cause was straightforward. The first world war intervened. “Before I had recovered from the heavy overdraft made on my strength by the expedition, I found myself in Flanders,” he recalled. “I came back badly invalided; and the book had to wait accordingly.”

The end result is now considered a classic that has been ranked number 1 in National Geographic’s 100 best adventure books of all time. “It is not only a comprehensive narrative of the Terra Nova expedition but a beautiful piece of writing,” as Airriess, author of the new graphic-novel series, says. Or, as the New York Review of Books once put it: “ The Worst Journey in the World is to travel what War and Peace is to the novel … a masterpiece.”

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‘The Worst Journey in the World’ Becomes Graphic Novel

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Exactly 100 years after its original publication, the greatest adventure story ever told gets a 21st-century upgrade.

The tragic tale of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to the South Pole has been immortalized in many ways, but few have remained as powerful as the 1922 memoir from Aspley Cherry-Garrard.

Cherry-Garrard did not accompany Scott to the South Pole. Rather, his mission was to capture emperor penguin eggs. It nearly killed him and his two companions. But Cherry-Garrard lived to tell the tale, and what a tale it was.

His book, “The Worst Journey in the World”, has aged into one of the classics of the adventure genre — and is now available as a beautifully illustrated graphic novel.

Sarah Airriess, a veteran animator at Disney, spent more than 10 years researching Cherry-Garrard’s expedition to illustrate a faithful version of the story.

“The personalities of the men, and the science they undertook, are equally as important to understanding the story as the famous feats of exploration,” the graphic novel’s website said.

Judging by the gorgeous sample pages available online, Airriess has devoted significant time and passion to this project.

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Another image from Sarah Airriess’ graphic novel. Image: Sarah Airriess

‘No words could express its horror’

Cherry-Garrard set off on his bizarre and terrible expedition in June 1911. He joined two other members of Scott’s larger group: Henry “Birdie” Bowers and Bill Wilson.

Their mission sounded simple: to collect emperor penguin eggs. Unfortunately for them, the birds only laid eggs in the middle of the world’s most profound winter. As a result, this side trip from Scott’s South Pole ambitions nearly killed all three of them.

The men faced a month of blizzards and temperatures that reached -60˚C — all during the pitch-black of Antarctic winter. It was so consistently frigid that they joked that they considered -50˚ a heat wave. They navigated by the stars, frequently fell into crevasses, and hauled heavy sleds through the sandpaper snow at those temperatures.

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From the prologue of Sarah Airriess’ graphic novel. Image: Sarah Airriess

Somehow, the small team managed to complete their trek from Scott’s base camp on Ross Island to the penguin colony at Cape Crozier. When they returned with three eggs to Scott’s base camp, Cherry-Garrard couldn’t continue with Scott. Wilson and Bowers did and perished, leaving Cherry-Garrard the sole survivor of the ordeal.

As for the eggs, the Natural History Museum in London soon decided the eggs didn’t provide much scientific value after all. Cherry-Garrard’s memoir expresses profound anguish over the journey and its terrible result.

“We had been out for four weeks in conditions in which no man had existed previously for more than a few days, if that,” he wrote. “During this time we had seldom slept except from sheer physical exhaustion as men sleep on the rack; and every minute of it we had been fighting for the bed-rock necessaries of bare existence and always in the dark. This journey has beggared our language: no words could express its horror.”

‘It’s just the best action movie’

Scott’s larger expedition to the South Pole proved even more tragic than Cherry-Garrard’s penguin eggs mission.

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had already beaten the British explorer, arriving at the Pole first. Scott and his companions died of starvation during their return journey, just 11 miles away from a cache of supplies.

As for Airriess and her graphic novel, the illustrator had a simple answer for why the adventures of Scott and Cherry-Garrard have always fascinated her.

“It’s just the best action movie,” she said in the interview above while visiting Scott’s base camp in Antarctica. “There are all sorts of feats of daring-do and narrow scrapes and tobogganing down icefalls, and it’s so much fun. I think that’s something people sometimes lose when they’re reading the words on the page…They’re not really seeing the epic adventure cinema that I see in my head when I’m reading it.”

The gorgeous samples of Airriess’ work certainly reflect her passion for this story. While her website promises wider distribution in the future, you can purchase the first graphic novel in her series here or here .

Airriess has also provided a few free sample pages from her prologue .

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Comprehensive multi-layered research of the terra nova expedition (1910-13) for the production of a graphic novel adaptation of the worst journey in the world.

  • 2022 - Published Vol.1 of The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel
  • 2022 - Designed the "Bringing the Worst Journey in the World to Life" exhibit for the Polar Museum
  • 2019 - Antarctic Artist and Writer (W-223) with the US Antarctic Program, based at McMurdo
  • 2016-present - Guest teacher and mentor with Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • 2015-present - Guest teacher at The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark
  • 2014-2022 - Various London animation studios
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  • 2008-2013 - Walt Disney Animation Studios, animator and character designer for films including The Princess and the Frog and Paperman
  • 2002-2007 - Various animated productions in Vancouver, Canada

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  • Cross-referencing published and unpublished diaries, letters, and memoirs to create a day-by-day chronicle of the Terra Nova Expedition from the greatest possible umber of viewpoints
  • Collecting visual reference for objects and locations relating to the Terra Nova Expedition in order to illustrate their proper appearance and usage
  • Learning enough about the scientific disciplines involved on the Terra Nova Expedition to communicate the science to the reader in a narrative context
  • Airriess, S. & Cherry-Garrard, A. (2022). The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel (Vol.1). London: Indie Novella.
  • Airriess, S. (2016). Book Review: The man who found Captain Scott. Antarctic explorer and war hero. Surgeon Captain Edward Leicester Atkinson (1881–1929) DSO AM MRCS LRCP, Royal Navy. Michael C. Tarver. 2015. Brixham: Pendragon Maritime Publications. Polar Record, 52 (3), 378-379. doi:10.1017/S0032247415000856
  • May, K., & Airriess, S . (2015). Could Captain Scott have been saved? Cecil Meares and the 'second journey' that failed. Polar Record, 51 (3), 260-273. doi:10.1017/S003224741300096X
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indie Novella (14 November 2022)
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Oscar-winning Disney animator Sarah Airriess  speaks with Kathryn Ryan about her new project, a series of graphic novels re-telling the story of the earliest explorers to the South Pole. Based on Captain Scott's team-mate Apsley Cherry-Garrard's memoir of their ill-fated 1912 expedition The Worst Journey in the World , Sarah's adaptation is breathing new life and love into it. You can keep abreast of the project and donate here  and download sample chapters for free . Sarah left Hollywood behind for this passion project, but she had made her mark. Frozen , Winnie the Pooh, Wreck-It Ralph , the Academy Award winning Paperman , plus the much loved Simon's Cat are all on Sarah's CV.

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The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World

A Talk by Sarah Airriess

Institute Associate, University of Cambridge

Hear the story of the Terra Nova Expedition from former Disney animator Sarah Airriess , and learn how she’s adapting one of the classic expedition accounts into a full-colour, cinematic graphic novel.

Sarah is a Canadian-born artist, who has lived in Cambridge since 2014. She spent a great deal of her time perusing the Scott Polar Research Institute in Lensfield Road, to learn about Robert Falcon Scott’s party and their tragic visit to the Antarctic to piece together her graphic Novel.

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  • 2022 – Published Vol.1 of The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel
  • 2022 – Designed the “Bringing the Worst Journey in the World to Life” exhibit for the Polar Museum
  • 2019 – Antarctic Artist and Writer (W-223) with the US Antarctic Program, based at McMurdo
  • 2016-present – Guest teacher and mentor with Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • 2015-present – Guest teacher at The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark
  • 2014-2022 – Various London animation studios
  • 2013-2014 – Google, assistant animator for Spotlight Stories
  • 2008-2013 – Walt Disney Animation Studios, animator and character designer for films including The Princess and the Frog and Paperman
  • 2002-2007 – Various animated productions in Vancouver, Canada

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After years of taking photographs in America, Japan, other parts of Asia and in Europe, Herbert Ponting became and remains best-known for his work on Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition (1910-3).  This exhibition will be looking at his life and work with photographs from Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, alongside artefacts and research carried out by biographer Anne Strathie.

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In 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest survivors of Captain Scott’s ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole, published his memoir of the expedition.   The Worst Journey in the World   humanised the epic tragedy with its sensitive observations of the men involved and evocative descriptions of Antarctic life.

A century later, this classic of travel literature is being adapted into a series of graphic novels by Disney veteran Sarah Airriess, who has spent over a decade researching the expedition in order to tell the story completely and faithfully. The personalities of the men, and the science they undertook, are equally as important to understanding the story as the famous feats of exploration.

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