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The party gathered around Amundsen't tent at the South Pole. From left, Scott, Oates, Wilson, Evans. Photo by Bowers

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 Dinesh
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On January 17, 1912, Scott’s party found Amunesen’t stnt, with the Norwegian flag flying from the tent pole. Inside was a note from Amundsen, sighed by all his party, as well as a letter to King Haakon, which Amundsen asked Scott to deliver should something nasty happen to him before he got home.

Dear Captain Scott, as you probably are the first to reach this area after us, I will kindly ask you to forward this letter to King Haakon VII. If you can use any of the articles in the tent, please do not hesitate to do so. The sledge left outside may be of some use to you. With kind regard, I wish you a safe return.

Yours,
Ronald Amundsen

They stayed long enough to take sights, plant the Union Jack and take some photographs. That night, Scott wrote in his diary: “Great God! This is an awful place.” One wonders if Scott would have made the same diary entry if he had beaten Amundsen to the Pole. Of the group, PO Taff Evans was the most crushed. He had hoped being first to Pole would bring him promotion and the wealth that would surely follow. Oates did it for the glory of the regiment. Wilson was more pragmatic and wrote: “He has beaten us in so far as he made a race out of it. We have done what we came for all the same and as our programme was made out. They took some sights to confirm they actually were at geographic South Pole and turned north for the 900 mile journey back to Cape Evans. ~ Page 230

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 Dinesh
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When the survivors of the ‘Terra Nova’ expedition return to their homeland in June 1913, the brigade’s scientific achievement attract a great deal of attention. This is intended to distract from the fact that Scott, exalted as a national hero, was in fact the second to reach the South Pole. For when the last members of expedition finally arrive at the South Pole in 1912, the freshly erected Norwegian flag was already standing proud. Ronld Amundsen was a few days ahead in this ruthless race against ice and time. The morale of the British expedition members was broken. Scott was not the only one to lose his life in the endless ice on his way back. Even today captain Lawrence Oats is revered as a martyr in Great Britain, for committing suicide so as not to be a burden to his four comrades. His last words as he left the tent are legendary: ‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’ A sentence like that makes man immortal in England. The title of Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s legendary report on the catastrophic expedition is just as fitting: ‘The Worst Journey in the World.’ So the Brits may not have discovered the South Pole, but at least they didn’t lose their sense of humour. ~ Page 138

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