Well, this is cool (pun not intended but definitely enjoyed): twenty-two 100-year-old photos were recently found in a block of ice in Antarctica.
More accurately, they’re “exposed but unprocessed negatives,” believed to be taken by Arnold Patrick Spencer-Smith as part of an expedition by none other than Ernest Shackleton, during which he and his men were stranded by a blizzard and three of them died.
See the incredible developed photos here—the imperfections only serve to make them more eerily beautiful.
(As a tangent, if you’re into stories about Antarctica, Riverhead Books publicity director Jynne Martin is doing a residency there, and she wrote this superb piece about the penguins she’s encountered for Slate.)
