Robert Falcon Scott
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…t, the autumn had to finish its work. On 23 April 1911, three 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…
- The Winter of CompanionshipThe conditioning was complete. The ordeal was about to begin. On 22 May 1911, Robert Falcon Scott wrote in his journal with the satisfaction of a man who has finished a difficult calculation. He had spent the afternoon determining the co…
- The Summit and the Norwegian FlagThe fear was precise. The dread would be earned. On 15 January 1912, Robert Falcon Scott sat in a tent at 87°32′ South and wrote in his journal about a landscape that refused to offer any purchase for the mind. The sky had merge…