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RSC is offering a prize to the most dauntless traveller during the current big freeze.
To help commemorate the centenary this year of the start of Captain Scott's heroic but weather-stricken Antarctic journey, the Royal Society of Chemistry is offering a prize to the person it judges to be the most dauntless traveller during the current big freeze.
One hundred years after the world-famous Scott Terra Nova expedition began the society is offering a £300 prize to the individual chosen for their outstanding fortitude and resolution or selflessness in the face of snow and ice conditions the like of which has not been seen for decades.
The one-off Cherry prize is named after the remarkable Apsley Cherry-Garrard, who worked on the Scott scientific expedition but who missed out on joining the last, fatal leg that led to the deaths of heroes Scott, Bowers, Oates, Wilson and Evans.
He wrote about the doomed but immortal 1910-1913 expedition in The Worst Journey the World, considered to be the greatest travel book every published.
The Royal Society of Chemistry is inviting accounts and pictures, if possible, of people who have fought their way through to, or from, their workplaces undeterred by deteriorating weather and transportation.
Those who have stopped to aid others will get special consideration.
Evidence demonstrating pluck, selflessness, and patience can be sent as emails, letters and images, still or moving. Closing date is 21 January 2010
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