Norwegian Tryggve Gran’s 1912 journal – sold for £150,000 – reveals ‘horrible nightmare’ of finding the bodies of the polar explorer and his companions
The haunting sledging journals of Tryggve Gran, in which the young Norwegian explorer details his discovery of the frozen body of Captain Scott in the Antarctic, have sold for £150,000.
Gran was part of the 11-man search party that set off from Cape Evans to find the missing Scott and his team on 29 October 1912. Scott had begun a second Antarctic expedition in June 1910, starting for the South Pole in October 1911 and making it on 17 January 1912, only to find they had been beaten to their goal by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, who arrived a month earlier.
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