Life below zero

Wildlife photographer Ginny Scholes fulfilled a lifelong dream when she took her camera on an Antarctic expedition, writes Ellie Fazan

“My grandfather gave me a camera when I was 10 and I haven’t stopped taking pictures since. As time went on, my passion for wildlife and photography increased. Then, in 1997, I sailed from San Francisco to the South Shetland Islands as part of my job crewing a 46m sailing boat. Though we didn’t get as far as the Antarctic Peninsula, the polar bug bit hard. Wild, off-the-beaten-track locations excite me, and there’s nowhere wilder than this.”