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This photograph is one of the images that survived Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Endurance expedition. When the ship became trapped in Antarctic ice in 1915 and later began flooding, expedition photographer Frank Hurley waded into the freezing water to rescue hundreds of fragile glass-plate negatives. Shackleton later ordered that most of them be abandoned to reduce the weight of the lifeboats, forcing Hurley to smash around 400 plates on the ice and save only 120. Those surviving negatives became the visual record of one of history’s greatest survival stories. New high-definition scans published by the Royal Geographical Society have even revealed details that were previously hidden for more than a century.

Photo by Kevin Edworthy

Photo by Daniel Dencescu

"I approached him, and I didn't even have time to say much when he hugged me directly and said: 'Good job. You're an incredible goalkeeper. Your people must be very proud of you.' Hearing that from someone like Leo means a lot to me.

'Thanks, Leo. You're the best.' Then I asked him for his match jersey, he smiled and said: 'Of course. I'll give it to you in the locker room tunnel.' Moments like this I'll remember for the rest of my life."

Photo by Christian Ziegler

Christian tracked a group of bonobos that are being studied by Barbara Fruth of the Max Planck Society. He set out each day before daylight, waded chest-deep through flooded forest and often walked 20 kilometres each day.
Catching up with the group, Christian recalls how ‘the bonobo held and stroked the little mongoose for more than an hour, carrying it carefully, as it climbed a tree to eat fruit’.

At first look you might think that this scene is sweet, but it likely has a darker origin. Bonobos are mainly herbivores but do occasionally hunt and eat small mammals. This mongoose pup was eventually released unharmed, but it might have been taken when its mother was killed.