Henry Bowers
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…ee men hauled a sledge through snow that gave like wet sand beneath their boots. Robert Falcon Scott led, with Edward Wilson beside him and Henry Bowers trailing the trace. They had left Cape Evans three days before, bound south across the Barrier with a load that the expedition’s planners h…
- The Launch of Scott’s FinalHenry Bowers wrote in his diary for 31 October 1911 with the cramped urgency of a man who had learned to record facts while his hands still shook from c…
- The Summit and the Norwegian Flag…more fresh meat from slaughtered ponies, no more relay work to lighten loads. The five men who remained were Scott himself, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates, and Edgar Evans. They had started with sixteen. Now they were the polar party. The first days on the plateau had brought a…