ining in Essex, while Sir Wally Herbert, eminent polar adventurer and artist, was photographed quietly at home in the Highlands shortly before he died last year, still exuding a sense of smouldering determination.
Hartley's studies also include Professor Hugh Brody, the anthropologist, author and film-maker who spent years living and working with the Inuit in the Arctic. And it is Brody who reminds us, in a telling afterword, that while we may think in terms of explorers pitting themselves against inhospitable northern wastes, for many people these places are home, and the book contains several striking pictures, old and new, of Inuit people.
"Too often," says Lewis-Jones, "the heroic accounts fail to mention the help that local people have given. I wanted to level things out a bit, to remind us that not only are there Inuit people for whom the Arctic is home, but it is also living space for those working there. It's not just all about people racing for the Pole."
Face to Face: Polar Portraits is published by the Scott Polar Research Institute, priced 40 hardback and 25 paperback on Monday 10 November.