Edgar Evans
Books
- Eleven Miles from One Ton Scott, Amundsen, and the Fatal Margin on the Antarctic Barrier · Liszt Think
On January 17, 1912, Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole only to find Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian flag already planted.
- The First Depot Lies Unmarked…ned back at the foot of the Beardmore Glacier, their work done. By early January 1912, five men remained: Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers, and Edgar Evans. They reached the pole on 17 January, finding Amundsen’s tent and flag already there. The return journey, documented in Scott’s final journ…
- The Launch of Scott’s Final…uld carry the expedition’s ultimate weight when machines failed and animals could go no further. Scott himself led this party, with Wilson, Edgar Evans, and the seaman Crean. Their sledge, loaded with the scientific instruments that would not fit on the motor sledges or pony sledges, with t…
- The Upper Glacier Depots…t. Lower Glacier Depot: 84° 33’ S. The coordinates are precise. The cost is noted in the same entry. Evans was strong but sweating heavily. Edgar Evans was thirty-four years old, a petty officer in the Royal Navy, the largest man in the party and the one on whom Scott had relied for physica…