Captain Scott reaches The South Pole, 1912

[@hughyang]

Here are the Scott's last words: It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake look after our people. R. SCOTT

[@marguskiis7711]

Suicide note

[@callumcc8897]

⁠@@marguskiis7711I’m sorry but you have never tracked 900 miles in sub zero weather before! It was a letter written when he was slowly dying!

[@LPJack02]

RIP the members of the British Antarctic Expedition team Robert Falcon Scott (June 6, 1868 - March 29, 1912), aged 43 Edward Wilson (July 23, 1872 - March 29, 1912), aged 39 Lawrence Oates (March 17, 1880 - March 17, 1912), aged 32 Henry Robertson Bowers (July 29, 1883 - March 29, 1912), aged 28 Edgar Evans (March 7, 1876 - February 17, 1912), aged 35 You will be remembered as legends

[@Ettibridget]

Any reason for turning the dates around? These guys were British ...

[@xltrt]

They are still heroes and very brave men.

[@redblade8160]

xltrt. And spoken like a halfwit that you must be.

[@crobulari2328]

Poor old Scott. What a mess. Horses, dogs, motors and god forbid; man hauling. Height of ineptitude and crass planning. Now, had they had some food the the outcome would have been a lot different. Expedition? No, fiasco. One needs fuel to operate on. Don`t believe me. Then ask any Doctor.

[@Scaro.s]

Have you read anything at all on the subject? Scott had plenty of food throughout the journey and didn’t face true shortages until towards the end when bad weather prevented them from reaching One Ton. The fuel aspect is unfair in that enough fuel was definitely left at each depot but seepage inexplicably and unexpectedly happened.

[@louise_rose]

The happy-go-lucky bungler who believes things will always play out fine if you're British, even in the Antarctic.

[@BRNorbel]

Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a brave man. But he planed not right, the Ponys, the motor sleges, not knowing how too use dogs and take one persone more to the Pole was his faith. And in the end not enough food, it was hard for them. The world will never forgett this brave man and his team. Oates, Wilson, Bowers and Evans. Still heros!

[@crobulari2328]

BRNorbel Very brave men. One can go into all the faults of poor old Scott and there were many failings. Man-hauling indeed!!. If they had taken plenty of food and paraffin for the primus then the outcome would have been very different, they starved to death. Scott would have done well to listen to Fritjof Nansen. As it was Roald Amundsen won the race easily. Loads of good equipment dogs and plenty of good food. Nearly 5 weeks ahead too. As leader of his expedition Scott has to take responsibility for the demise of P.O. Evans, Capt: Oates and Bowers and Wilson.

[@BRNorbel]

Crobular I Fridtjof Nansen said to Scott he should use dogs. Scott plans was good, but in the end it was, what you said, one man more was the faith. And he had a very cold summer, colder than usual. But like you said still heros! And no one has ever reached the Pole like Scott or Amundsen.

[@ikonikskinsencariodance5299]

BRNorbel your right I’m learning about this and the experience there is awful the should of planed proparly

[@TheMariepi3]

Scott should not have used horses, but camels from Mongolia, camels that have two humps and are adapted to extremely low temperatures and live in snow and ice. These camels stand perfectly -40 degrees, they can be two months without eating, and to drink if they do not have water they can eat snow. Scott's expedition could have consisted of 50 Mongolian camels, each carrying a sleigh or cart loaded with soybeans and wheat, wearing protective boots and warm clothes, and the expeditionaries mounted on camels, not to walk

[@wilmersundberg5732]

Scotts planning wasn’t as bad as some people have claimed and would’ve probably worked if he wasn’t unlucky. He did bring too many people but he had terrible luck with the weather which was the coldest it had been in several years. He had calculations for a much warmer climate and planned ackordingly.

[@mrmods7912]

Scott walked to the pole....Amundsen rode there on a sleigh!!

[@walboyfredo6025]

The rest of the Amundsen team, in last 100 meters, held back for Amundsen to SKI AHEAD so that he would THE FIRST man to reach the pole.

[@walboyfredo6025]

2:07 One of the saddest thing in life is when yours dream that you planned for years is destroyed in moments.

[@marguskiis7711]

It was predictable

[@kimj2570]

They had seen that black flag half day before reaching pole, and hauled their loads with dog and sled tracks of Norwegians everywhere. Amundsen had immediately "boxed" the pole, sending 3 parties to go 10 miles on 0, 90 and 270 degrees from their approach course and plant a blag flag, to prevent anyone claiming they had done mistake in navigation, or if British appear 30 minutes after them and claim having better fix on position. It was 90 degree marker Scotts men first saw. Amundsens team used 3 full days on pole only to fix their position as accurately they could, with cross referencing between navigators, till all signed they were there (4 out of 5 on his team were experienced seafarers and navigators). Not a single word of disagreement on Scotts journal on position (=silence means Scott agrees). In this GPS era we know Polheim tent is 1 nautical mile off, also Amundsens team last calculations put exact pole 1.2 nautical miles off from tent, where he sent team of men to raise additional pennants. They did not move the tent.

[@Krzyszczynski]

One thing that really hosed me off about this series was the way Captain Oates' death was treated. They didn't use the immortal line "I am just going outside and may be some time". If I remember right they just had him muttering "call of nature" or something. Appalling!

[@mathrodite]

If he had said only the former, they would have followed him, realizing his intention. He probably added that to the end to deflect them. Obviously, no one can know the truth, but that notion was not invented by this series.

[@jasontiscione1741]

"I am just going outside and may be some time" is Scott's written characterization of his last words. Of course he didn't quote the guy saying he was about to take a piss.

[@Defender78]

@@jasontiscione1741 yeah but the "going outside" line would have sounded awesome and probably would have been accompanied by a poignant piano tune, woulda been a great scene

[@turnpiketumbler8938]

Taking five men instead of the intended four, for the last leg of race to the South Pole was probably the biggest mistake. Scott gambled on the extra man, he thought it might improve their hauling time. Instead took too long to set up at night, too long to cook food, and too long to pack up on and move on. This slowed them down on route to the pole and killed them on the way back. R.I.P all brave men.

[@walboyfredo6025]

Plus Amundsen used some of the dogs as food. To Scott such a thing is an abomination.

[@davidrotter3862]

After studying this topic for some time now, it is these reenactments that are the most gut wrenching. Depending on the narrator and the actors, different emotions are wrought. Scott was British through and through and it is most puzzling for such an advanced society to view indigenous peoples such as the Inuit as “being ignorant poor savages with nothing whatsoever to teach to them” We mustn’t view these documentaries with negative judgment, we must try if we can to “emotionally walk in their snow boots”. Amundsen trained for over 15 years to be a world class Polar Explorer 🧭. By his own admission, Robert Falcon Scott had no predilections for Polar Exploration. Amundsen sealed his fuel containers with solder and not a bit of fuel leaked. Scott sealed his fuel containers with leather washers which leaked constantly. Amundsen had biscuits with yeast and whole oats as well as a special kind of Pemmican with vegetables and whole grains mixed with the dried meat. Also, Amundsen planned for 5 times the cocoa per man than did Scott and he also brought huge rations of dried milk to mix with it. He planned for 10 times more food per man, per day than did Scott. Amundsen also augmented his team’s diet with Penguin 🐧 and Seal 🦭 meat. He would even eat some raw seal meat every day to ward of scurvy. No matter how much more supplies Scott had brought, the above scene would be the same. Scott literally looked upon the wretchedness of man hauling as noble. Because of this one thought, he came in second place🥈. Amundsen was singularly focused upon getting to the South Pole first. He had mortgaged his own house to finance part of his expedition. His very existence depended on his getting there first. Imagine how his financial backers, including the owners of The Fram, would have responded to him had he come in 2nd place. Scott knew that it was going to be a race but made no alterations to his plan after finding this out. Less than 1/4th of the way to the Pole, the brutal practice of man hauling was to commence. He knew that Amundsen was skiing and although his team hired and brought an expert Norwegian ski ⛷ instructor on the voyage, they did not use this man at all. How I do wish that these hearty brave men had lived. I think the demoralizing effect of coming in 2nd was the final straw for Scott and his team. That and the unbelievable inclement weather that comprised the Winter of 1912. They were more than likely all dead by March 31st 1912. The Titanic was to plummet 2 and 1/2 miles to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean 2 weeks later. Then World War 1. 1912 was an unkind sovereign of time to Britain. Scott did a lot of things that might seem questionable in hindsight some 111 years on. If he was going to bring a 5th Man to the pole, how could he not increase his rations of food and paraffin in order to accommodate this 5th Man? Some of Scott’s paraffin froze solid while other containers leaked. Oates and Scott had a rather well documented row over not walking the needed 15 to 20 miles South that was indicated on all of Scott’s well planned notes. Scott was in command and so he ordered that “one ton depot” be 15 to 20 miles North of where Scott had planned. The other depots were evenly spaced out to meet parallel lines on a map. Oates told Scott very angrily that he was going regret this decision to not walk the intended amount of miles. They died within 11 miles of huge quantities of food and fuel. Oates’ “May Be Some Time” could’ve been just not wanting to die with the person who caused his death, Captain Scott!!

[@marguskiis7711]

Scott was the expert of Antarctica, spending there for years. Unlike Amundsen.

[@marguskiis7711]

Scott and others made probably the suicide.

[@davidrotter3862]

Amundsen spent 2 years in the Antarctic on the Belgica Antarctic Expedition 1897-1899. After that, he spent two entire years living with native Inuit people of the Polar North regions. He then went on to complete the Northwest Passage. England tried it for 300 plus years. Amundsen did it by listening to those who navigate and exist in the extreme cold. He grew up using skis as a ten year old boy. He trained for over 15 straight years to be the world’s premier Polar Explorer. Scott by his own admission said that he has no predilections for polar exploration. Scott lived in England and had some experience with the Discovery Expedition but he insisted on the relentlessly painful strains of man hauling as opposed to using dogs like Peary and others literally begged him to do. Scott was a novice compared to Amundsen.

[@marguskiis7711]

​@@davidrotter3862 Amundsen was the navigator of the ship which was close to the Antartica 1899 but he never reached to the soil. Unlike Scott who spent several years in Antarctica making plenty of research work.

[@marguskiis7711]

​@@davidrotter3862 Strange, you don't know anything about Scott. First lengthy period he spent in Ant was 1901 -- 1902 and then he made his first but unsuccessful attempt to reach to pole. He built up the first research base there and made plenty of scientific work. Then he went to Ant 1910 to make another pole attempt and make scientific works.

[@bobwillis3023]

Everyone is berating Scott for his mistakes, but no one feels sorry for him for the torturous death he suffered, despair followed by a slow death in the blizzards.

[@kenkovar2647]

that's what real courage is...

[@TheTarget1980]

no, because he is guilty of the death of his comrades who suffered because of his failures and his selfhisness.

[@MA-lb8dq]

I feel sorry for him but he was arrogant and ironically British. These 2 go hand in hand to together in the past. Scott wasn't experienced but his journey was very dramatic and fascinating based on his diaries.

[@louise_rose]

@@MA-lb8dq True of course. Amundsen was a much more rational man, a much better planner and had far more real experience of mounting Polar expeditions and surviving journeys like these than Scott, Amundsen clearly deserved his crown - but after he returned home he was faced with the thankless contrast against a dead man speaking from beyond the grave through his dramatic diaries (Amundsen is not as engaging a writer as Scott was).

[@redblade8160]

@@kenkovar2647 Stupidity, not courage.

[@samuraiknight1600]

from what know of when reading actual facts is that scott actually planned his expedition really well. what really killed him and his men was a rare and unusual wather phenomenon, creating unpresidented cold wind and air. It got so cold in fact that the snow became like sand, making their sled almost impossible to move. scott planned his expedition well, both in supply and research. but no amout of planning could have forseen this weather Phenomenon that doomed his expedition.

[@blekfut5763]

Well, that is just the typical british excuse for Scott's bungling.

[@georgewaite2952]

Amundsen learned from the Inuit on King William Island. He learned the way of living by the Inuit.Gjoa Haven it is now known. Nunavut Territory.1903 to 1905.Amundsen and his mates learned from the Inuits on how to survive in the Arctic. Amundsen applied what he learned in Antarctica.

[@louise_rose]

Yes, and of course Amundsen and his men knew much more about skiing and snow from their background in Norway than Scott and his team, who had no experience at all of skis and naively thought they could man-haul their heavy packing all the way to the pole and back (or use ponies, which proved unable to stand up to the cold and snow).

[@billpercy6354]

The comments that Scott made mistakes may be true, but these comments are made with 21st century insight and the benefit of modern technology. Virtually no-one had done this type of journey before. Scott was a great leader of men. That they died on the journey back was due to the extreme weather conditions. Ironically it was too warm on the outward journey and when the snow drifts melted their bedding and clothing became saturated, which then froze into solid blocks when ‘normal’ temperatures returned. Later on the return journey continual blizzard conditions confined them to their tent and sealed their fate. Please also note that Antarctica is a huge continent, larger than North and Central America combined, these men hauled a sledge across it, half the time crossing pressure ridges and crevasses in temperatures of -60f and lower with high winds. If you want a true picture of what they went through read “The worst journey in the world” by Apsley Cherry Gerrard, a member of the expedition.

[@mariepi]

Scott, who did not want to use dogs, must have used Tibetan camels, two-hump camels, and not horses. Tibetan camels withstand temperatures of -40 degrees without problems, it is believed that the shape of their feet was an adaptation for walking on snow, if they need water they can eat ice or snow, they endure 3 months without eating thanks to their fat reserves. The men should be mounted on the camels, not walking or skiing that exhausts, and the camels should be dragging very wide wheel carts or sledges, loaded with soybeans, which serve as food for camels and men, even dragging carts prepared with a windproof cockpit, for example an expedition of about 50 Mongolian camels and only 3 or 4 men

[@marguskiis7711]

Shackleton did the journey several years before!

[@marguskiis7711]

The blizzard did not happened. Scott faked it.

[@Krzyszczynski]

Something I've not seen referred to very often, but malnutrition very likely played a significant role in the party's demise as well as the unusually atrocious weather. At the time no-one bar a few scientists knew or understood anything about vitamins. The team's diet would seem from what I've read to have been deficient in at least one, possibly more. And in those conditions, even a minor imbalance in your nutrition can ultimately prove fatal.

[@FredrikSkievan]

Probably not talked about since it's fairly obvious. They were also missing around 2000 of the 5000+ calories needed daily just to keep their energy levels stable and high. So more so a lack of calories and energy than any sort of lack in vitamins but im very sure the lack of some vitamins didn't help them but definitely not their biggest priority at the time.

[@emmerentiagroenewald3694]

But Amunsen knew about food,and went well prepared.....

[@victoriawong9548]

*tears* I feel so sad for them. But still If only it was an impossible coincidence that they reached there at the same time or teamed up. I feel so sad!

[@nadfarg4824]

Peter Perfect needs to do research into this sad but heroic tale. Robert Scott was and is a great man. Read all the accounts of this great explorer before passing any meaningless judgement. We could all be better men if we only had 1% of his character.

[@campfiresnlasguns]

"While those brave men were dying out there in the waste of ice, I was lecturing in warmth and comfort in Australia." ~ Roald Amundsen, 1913, after news reached the world of Scott & his team's tragic demise. Roald Amundsen may be better prepared than Scott during his expedition to the South Pole, but even him and his team could've easily perished. Despite merticulous planning, he still couldn't escape the need of making tremendous sacrifices to ensure his team succeeded and returned home alive. One of his biggest sacrifices was the mercy killing of some of the sledge dogs which him and his team loved dearly. When a dog was too weak to go any further, he and his team opted to shoot them than leave them to freeze. Worse, given limited rations, the men and their surviving dogs had to eat the fallen canines to push on. He understood the dreadful perils of Antarctica all too well. One can only wonder how devastated he must've felt learning of Scott's demise and imagining the suffering his rival endured; maybe add in nightmares in which he dreamed of himself back there on the icy desert.

[@Hibernicus1968]

He always planned to kill and eat some of the dogs along the route. He was completely unsentimental about it. I don't doubt though that he felt great sorrow for the loss of Scott and his entire team.

[@TheJames1745]

They're dogs. Amundsen always intended to eat them. This dog fetish and putting dogs on a pedestal as members of the family is getting out of hand.

[@FredrikSkievan]

@@TheJames1745 Dogs are awesome

[@louise_rose]

@@TheJames1745 Agree, the argument that "how bastardly of them to shoot some of the diogs and use them as food (both for the other diogs and the team themselves) - NEVER would a British man do that!!" was hollow already in 1912, and it should have been buried long ago. Those dogs were draught animals, not somebody's pets, and if you have to choose between saving five dogs or five people, any sane person would choose to save human lives first.

[@delwigzieful]

Sadly scott was an amateur the Norwegians totally professionals scott also started to late it was an act of share Lunacy from scott,para

[@blekfut5763]

True.

[@louise_rose]

True. Scott more or less believed that it was the divine birthright of the British to take the South Pole first, and that the Norwegians were unfair for even making an attempt of their own and contesting it.

[@ayacheadouane1590]

MY BEST REGARDS TO THE LEGENDARY MAN AND HIS COLLEAGUES. I HAVE TO BOW DOWN BEFORE THESE GREAT MEN

[@dreamer33ish]

Scott is one of many of britains heroes and will ever be so!!

[@faustom1736]

Scott was incompetent! He had no experience with skis, he also used ponies and a few sled dogs and eventually had to pull the sled with his companions while Amundsen used only sled dogs and fur clothing, as he had long observed the Inuit. . Scott was an arrogant English fool and he led his comrades to certain death! Long live Amundsen!

[@imredeeming]

@@faustom1736 England was the superpower of the earth in 1912 🇬🇧

[@stevenmoore3130]

Love all these armchair expedition know all's pontificating as to Scots failure. They walked a distance equivalent to that from Paris to Moscow most of it in Freezing sub zero temperatures. And did so in the days before modern synthetics when everything you wore was permanently wet or frozen. I'm a veteran soldier, and believe me, not many here I venture have any idea what permacold means. Or just how debilitating frostbite is to ones mobility brought on, in Scots case, by freakish plummeting temperature's both persistent and well below what a human can endure for more than a few days. The later part of their journey back was in temperatures recorded only once in every sixteen years for the particular weeks they were at their most exhaustive. Also his team were British, making the feat even more extreorinary, given that, thanks to the Gulf Stream, unlike Amundson the British have very little collective experience in extreme cold climates or with handling skis and personal management in such conditions which accounts for the Norwegian ability to cover ground more effectively and their ultimate success . Given there handicaps, they didn't need any bad luck and they got that in spades. I'm not going to add more, suffice it to say, the current world's foremost expert on extreme cold expeditions Sir Ranulph Fiennes has quite a bit to say of the detractors in a video to be found here on KZbin. Should anyone want to check it out.

[@abbaszaidi8371]

And I gave up 80km into a 100km trek in a rainy 30 hr walk for Oxfam 3 years ago. No way will I judge these heroes

[@nickcrosby9875]

No one doubts their bravery nor the immense effort they put in. But those are different points to the decisions and choices that Scott made in planning and equipment etc. You clearly have not heard enough about the effort, skill and planning- and adaptation that Amundsen put in to achieve his incredible feat of reaching the pole- and by a new route over the Glacier. If a leader undertakes such a journey with relatively little Cold weather skills and experience, isn't the more sensible thing to GAIN such experience rather than sally forth?

[@nickcrosby9875]

Fiennes is one of many modern polar adventurers, he is not by any stretch the undisputed authority...

[@Krzyszczynski]

@@nickcrosby9875 " ... the effort, skill and planning- and adaptation that Amundsen put in to achieve his incredible feat ... ". You could add ruthlessness to that list. The humans in his party all came back, but about 80% of his dogs didn't - killed to feed the "explorers" and the few remaining dogs. I suggest patriotism was driving RA as well. Norway had become an independent nation again only a few years earlier, and the country was no doubt keen to big itself up wherever possible.

[@eggcollecter6205]

captain scott is a very brave man I felt exhausted when I herd that someone else got there before them and I felt sorry for them they all planed there to get there he was a very brave men

[@TheNYgolfer]

Armundsen was an excellent professional artic explorer who discovered the Northwest passage. Something the mighty English Navy could not do. Then he beats the English to the south pole, while taking an uncharted route. By the time Scott knew what hit him, Armundsen was already sailing back home. It just wasn't a fair fight.

[@joeldm5278]

The moment Scott realized there is a huge difference between a happy go lucky British amateur and a hard nosed Norwegian professional. And by then...it was to late.

[@ayacheadouane1590]

the heroes never die.MAN IS NOT MADE FOR DEFEAT HE CAN BE DESTROYED BUT NOT DEFEATED

[@LEIFanevret]

I feel sorry for the men! Totally unnecessary loss of life! Due to horrible planning equipment etc. They payed dearly for it!

[@angelclassicalmusic3931]

Where could I get this movie of documentary from? Thank you

[@patrickhavens2943]

There needs to be a modern adaptation of this story told from both perspectives

[@albinahlsen8928]

The Last Place on Earth (the tv series the clip is from) is modern enough and told from both expeditions perspective.

[@abbaszaidi8371]

@@albinahlsen8928 it’s very pro Amundsen. But it shows Scott’s heroism in death at the end. Unfortunately it does show him to be a navel gazing bungler in the drama. History needs to rehabilitate him. Still, loved this drama when I watched it in the eighties

[@massimolombardi1569]

Dopo tanta fatica, disperazione, dolore, speranza, privazioni, solitudine,sofferenze,freddo, vento terribile, cecità e ancora tanto, ecco che Robert Falcon Scott con i suoi quattro compagni di spedizione,arriva al PoloSud trovando la bandiera della Norvegia,scoprendo con orribile tormento di essere arrivato tardi. Straordinario il suo viaggio, resterà nella leggenda.....Max da Sora ciociaria

[@Ettibridget]

2.35 Evans is broken in more than one sense.

[@tangomango7196]

such faith and patience would be in heaven

[@a.n.c146]

I don’t know if this is true but I saw in a comment on another video that Scott had wanted dogs to come but they never came

[@kevinbergin9971]

Yes, he had left behind contradictory orders related to dog sledges coming out to look for them on their return. Too much to write here but it didn't help for sure.

[@robertwalker951]

One cannot imagine their disappointment

[@kennywowie]

which production is this? I thought it was the John Mills version but not, though it has a very similar look to it. Very curious, would like to see this one.

[@torstenrichter169]

Heroes !!!!!!!

[@oliverweston8595]

He was a brave man he did well!But he died sadly on his way back😭

[@davidmicik6939]

What is the movie?

[@StevenFisher-dy7hg]

Vy did they leave their tent🤔

[@hobomike6935]

The tent was left behind as part of Amundsen's indisputable evidence that he had reached the pole. He also brought with him: >a well-selected party of men that were trained in navigation and could verify distances and direction traveled > several navigational tools that could be used to prove his latitude and longitude on his return >documentation through written journals that included timestamps, party condition, and dates >strategically placed line of supply depots that scientists could later uncover and follow when back-tracking his trek to the pole The tent was erected at the location that his party could best calculate, was the south pole. to be absolutely certain, an area around where the pole *had to be* located was "boxed in" during their very short stay at the Antarctic plateau based on the sun's positioning and their latitude tools. (the south pole actually slightly changes locations depending on the time of year, the temperature, and variations in Earth's orbit.)

[@hobomike6935]

Part of Amundsen's paranoia about proving he had reached the pole stemmed from his original dreams to be the first to reach the *North Pole,* which were squashed when Cook and Peary claimed to be the first. At the last second, he decided to head for the *South Pole* instead, without telling his party until they were out in open sea and the secret couldn't get out immediately. Because Cook's claim was quickly discovered to be fraud, Amundsen was intent on proving to scientific communities that he actually went where he said he went. *Ernest Shackleton,* Scott's Irish arch-nemesis in Antarctica, was more honest about his failure to reach the South Pole than the untrustworthy Cook was about reaching the North Pole. Although his party did not reach the south pole due to loss of supplies and poor weather, he *was* able to achieve a new Farthest South record of 88 degrees south. (only 118 miles away from the pole.) This new Record, combined with his Party's success in climbing *Mount Erebrus,* An active Volcano in Antarctica's mountains, impressed everyone including *King Edward VII.* For these achievements as well as his honesty and good documentation, he was awarded a Knighthood and honors upon his return.

[@Ruda-n4h]

I'm pretty sure Scott wouldn't have blubbed in front of the others.

[@barbmiller9285]

What is this show or movie?

[@trevskin]

What movie or documentary is this from?

[@b-techspongebob9103]

At school we are looking at this

[@victoriawong9548]

I learnt about him today in my literacy work

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

Scot did not plan badly, he was a brilliant leader of men who had the respect of all, this includes me

[@nonsense1558]

Then explain why Roald Amundsen and his team was able to make it to the Pole and back without loss of life? It's obvious Amundsen planned his South Pole expedition a helluva lot better than Scott did!

[@robertwalker951]

Brave brave men

[@ezekielwong7771]

what movie is this?

[@catxborsuq1]

tv series "The Last Place on Earth"

[@PF9O]

Something that is rarely mentioned is Scott’s ship was stagnant in pack ice for 20 days en route to Antarctica. If not for that delay, it’s likely they would have survived. Dare I say beaten Amundsen.

[@kimj2570]

@PF90 Scott arriving 3 weeks sooner on 1st summer might influence their survivability, maybe 1 ton depot would had been put where planned given more time? Or not. Arriving sooner has 0 influence on giving them any chances beating Norwegians on 2nd summer.

[@kimj2570]

BTW The place where 1 ton depot should had been, 80 degrees south is pretty much exactly where Oates left the tent. 1 year before he had predicted to Scott he will regret decision not to push depot to its place, 30 miles farther (Oates also suggested to kill any pony that became exhausted as extra food depot, which would had made possible of dog sled teams to advance in february/march 1912 and further advance pole teams chances to survive). Scott, as usual, declined good advice.

[@jackbuckley7816]

The fact that Scott & his team were beaten to the South Pole by the Norwegians led by Amundsen no longer seems to matter all that much. The fact that Scott's party were the first Englishmen to reach the Pole does mean something, in terms of representing a nation's spirit of exploration & achieving a goal against nearly impossible odds. They didn't fail. They didn't survive the return journey, no, but they didn't fail in their mission. I still find it beyond comprehension to realize what they endured & accomplished in such a harsh, unforgiving environment as Antarctica.

[@MA-lb8dq]

Technically they failed. Because Scott said in his diary that he lost hope. It's the hope that kept him alive. But after finding out that the Norwegians reached first broke him. Of course Amundsen matters maybe not to british because they love to show their lordship over the world. But yeah, Scott's story was fascinating.

[@jackbuckley7816]

@@MA-lb8dq Agree!

[@ChrisSummerfield]

I am allways inspired by the Diaries of Henry Falcon Scott at the memorial in Plymouth Mount Wise, See the video on youtube Chris Summerfield. As an ex member of Mountain Rescue in the RAF. Pushing ones self to the limits to achive a goal as well as a spiritual high. I can well relate to. Thanks for the video.

[@harveyshaw5468]

what did the letter say

[@garnine999]

If I thought I got to the south pole first and saw another countries flag there I would've fell to my knees and yelled the most giant NOOOOO ever 😢

[@sejembalm]

Captain Scott's fatal mistakes were relying on experimental 1911 automotive tractors and ponies. Amundsen used light sleighs pulled by Greenland dogs that are good to pull them in terrible arctic conditions and these dogs will also eat dead dogs (shot by the humans after the food runs out).

[@walboyfredo6025]

Bat - they was a time he and his team ate the dogs as well. Amundsen even called the area were the some of the dogs were killed " Butcher's Valley" - killing and eating the dogs always haunted him!

[@sejembalm]

@@walboyfredo6025 Unfortunately for Scott, his few dogs died fast from exposure (and getting shot) but did not last long to pull the sleds. People had to pull the sleds for the most part and that was exhausting. Amundsen had lots of dogs that were the best for pulling sleds in Antarctic conditions and they lasted the distance, later getting killed for food until the expedition was done. The Norwegian team was able to get to the South Pole and return to their base camps and ship before the weather turned lethal. Scott's starving team tried to make it back to their supply camps with no dogs and in bad weather which doomed them. R.I.P.

[@khurshidahmad7891]

Is this real video of them

[@shadowstarz3651]

Considering this happened 110 years ago, no. :P

[@louise_rose]

Of course they brought colour film cameras to the South Pole and back in 1912. 😅

[@johnduheaume6650]

They found Scott's Micro SD card frozen in his iPhone at the final death camp 11 miles from One Ton Depot, or did I dream that?

[@louise_rose]

@@johnduheaume6650 :D

[@phoxgrimm9]

The man attempted something very few have ever, you can plan till your head explodes and still fail, many great things have been planned and doomed , titanic, hindenburg, etc etc , but the one thing you can't take with you is the weather, and it's effects on the human body,the nors didn't have to face the same conditions,and they were hell bent to beat him there, but in all it's irrelevant, because capt scott was a scientific expedition and he accomplished that way above all, so anyone who badmouths a great teacher, gets an f, and another thing,it wasn't a race,, ps, unless you were there, you cannot judge,,

[@louise_rose]

People need to remember that Amundsen took major risks too - for example, he had to teavel through a completely uncharted land (because his route lay further east) across a mountain range no one had ever seen before - not that stretch of it anyway. Scott was travelling the route that he and Shackleton had taken before, so he knew what it would look like. What if the range Amundsen had to cross with his dogs had been 5.500 meters tall? (as it turned out, it was "only" around 4.000 meters - still an amazing feat to ascend that range to the plateau in just two weeks time!). Also, Amundsen had originally been planning for a trek to the North Pole, across frozen sea ice, and he had only limited options of adding more supplies or getting extra stuff after he decided to change his mind because he was already out on the ocean and didn't make any extra stops until he got to Australia. He refashioned his plans for a longer journey across land ice in his stride: this was a major feat in itself. Lots of things are different when you travel on land ice vs sea ice (finding the way back, for instance). Amundsen knew that he was playing ball with Death too, but he was a far more seasoned planner with more hands-on experience of snow, ice and Arctic travel. The baseline conditions were the SAME for both teams, but Scott bungled it by his bad planning (and because he was weighed down by the traditions of the Royal navy, his big sponsor, which compelled him to make yet more irrational choices).

[@shadowstarz3651]

Having read biographies both anti-Scott and more sympathetic, I think, while he did make serious mistakes, he was more a victim of circumstance.

[@faustom1736]

Scott was incompetent! He had no experience with skis, he also used ponies and a few sled dogs and eventually had to pull the sled with his companions while Amundsen used only sled dogs and fur clothing, as he had long observed the Inuit. . Scott was an arrogant English fool and he led his comrades to certain death! Long live Amundsen!

[@wesleyfreiman4617]

Please tell me where this clip is from!!!

[@walboyfredo6025]

The actor who played Scott is Martin Shaw - ex Professionals.

[@Krzyszczynski]

TV series dating from the mid-1980s.

[@aggelosn.6846]

Name of the movie?

[@rooi77]

It`s from the tv-serie "The last place on earth". You can watch the whole series here on youtube.

[@abbaszaidi8371]

Wilson went to my Med School. Apsley-Gerrard was born not far from where I live. Something tells me I need to go for a walk

[@mjp29]

What's the name of the movie ?

[@АнастасияБолдырева-х3х]

"The Last Place on Earth", 1985

[@davidcopson5800]

'The Last Place on Earth' was a seven part TV drama about Scott and Amundsen's race for the south pole starring Martin Shaw as Scott and Norwegian actor Sverre Anker Ousdal as Amundsen. It aired on British TV in 1985 on Central Television. It is available on a three disc DVD through Carlton. My uncle, a retired scientist working in Antarctica, saw it when he visited me from Tasmania and was very impressed. As others have said, I believe Roland Huntford's book of the same name does huge disservice to R. F. Scott who had certainly planned his 'second' expedition with much care. Read the excellent book 'Captain Scott' by Ranulph Fiennes to discover the true measure of Scott and his quest for the pole and for scientific knowledge.

[@MK-nd2ij]

@@АнастасияБолдырева-х3х спасибо милая женщина.

[@Thiccula]

To strive, To seek, To find, and not to Yield.

[@kokichiouma1555]

they only died because that year was an outlier in terms of temperature and it was supposed to be -10 but instead was -40 during the summertime. Scott was just Very Very unlucky...

[@johnduheaume6650]

And that was below zero Fahrenheit so add 32 degrees of frost , they had even lower temperatures than that on the winter journey to Cape Crozier to find Emperor penguins, over 100 degrees of frost. Plus advanced scurvy all round.

[@louise_rose]

We only have his own words that the weather was so extreme and that there was a two-weeks straight blizzard that finished them off (a real Hollywood tragic ending, isn't it?). Cherry-Garrard was at the One-ton depot around the same time, sent out to try to meet them, and he didn't record such a long and extreme snowstorm at all. Besides, by late February-March it was no longer summer, rather Antarctic autumn with increasing storms to be expected..

[@davideliasfloresescalante8840]

Easy way to talk about mistakes NOW. Those men reach the pole as second, a place where NOBODY reached yet at that time (only Amundsen), a price to be a legend..... what a walk............

[@blekfut5763]

Amundsen did it with no problems, he was prepared and experienced, read his book - they knew how to use dogs, skis, furs... Scott loathed these methods and thought that "british gentleman knows everything best" - and died.

[@davideliasfloresescalante8840]

@@blekfut5763 but, he did it, second place, but, he reached his goal... right?

[@Evemeister12]

Sometimes, bravery isn't good enough.

[@adrian.debeauvais5911]

I thought it a little over acted. The men would undoubtedly have been disappointed but in true edwardian British "stiff upper lip" would have carried on with a workmanlike fashion. Let's not forget most of Scott's party were military personnel except wilson the doctor and Bowers who was merchant Navy. Let's also remind ourselves of the unbelievable amount of strength physical and mental of man hauling sledges . The British had a sentimental aversion to really using dogs yes they used them but were not keen or adept same with skiing. We are not a nation of people who use them like the Norwegians. The tendency to recriminate scott is I think unfair and yes the inclusion of a fifth party member was a massive mistake. But consider the real goal wasn't about bagging the pole itself alone but scientific understanding and research was also very important to scott.Yes Shackleton was a better person to work with I believe whereas scott was autocratic to some degree been an officer in royal Navy. This aside for me the fact that modern explorers with better equipment GPS have failed to emulate the physical stamina these men did says it all. It's is easy and a popular practice for commentators sat in comfortable chairs in warm studys to criticise my personal take is maybe petty officers crean and Lashly 2 really strong tough guys would have ensured success. Let the endurance and fortitude of the expedition members and scientific achievements shine through. Incidentally as an an aside the weatherproof clothing worn was made by burberry famous for fine overcoats!!! Also remember 2 years after this tragedy a bigger one enveloped the world WW1 .God bless captain scott and his gallant companions, may they always inspire future generations as they did me over a half century ago when I first read of scott in the Ladybird children series books🙂

[@louise_rose]

In the authentic photos taken by Scott at the Pole, it's fairly easy to see how tired and deflated the men look, the sense of "fuck, we lost it!" in their faces and bearing, even though they are trying to look tough. Scott, of course, doesn't mention anything about negative feelings in his diaries, except hinting that Evans (who would be the first to die, probably from damage caused by a fall with his head first on the ice) is losing his cheerful spirit and his faith in the project. In reality there may have been open recrimination netween them - Scott's diaries are consciously written with an eye to posterity and to polish the image of his expedition.

[@markwebster5749]

Captain Scott will always be a British hero 🇬🇧

[@louise_rose]

Shackleton is a far greater hero, I would say. Also, Amundsen was a very worthy winner of the Crown of the South Pole.

[@cadetbirdsall7496]

He is my grate grate grate grandad

[@catxborsuq1]

Really? Cool^^

[@Kelly14UK]

0:32> BUGGER

[@georgewaite2952]

A wasteland of harsh weather and very cold temperatures. Even to this day it is a harsh climate.

[@markbailey1970]

Heartbreaking

[@robertwalker951]

As a boy i read the pencil final page in Scott’s diary in the then british museum ,even as a boy i was touched by it some 50. Years ago

[@Idantheguy]

When i was third grade me and my classmates read the story about captain scott during english class.

[@marguskiis7711]

They should know they were late. After meeting Norwegian team before the "race" it was clear the norges were the way better and faster.

[@eggcollecter6205]

he died he was in a tent and the ppl left them there and put snow around them they left them in the tent

[@BYWaudio]

That's the difference between professional and amateur, That Scott has been to a similar expedition before and never took the time to read and learn about others is simply stupid. He was an arrogant dictator, not a nice person to be with and the whole concept of military structure is also very inefficient. Amundsen took 2 years to prepare and had all the books/maps on the subject, Scott 9 months and was ill-prepare, he used garnemens totally ill-suited for that expedition, same that the one he did previously (Discovery Expedition) and ....ok I'll stop the differences are so extremes here. If you are very interested read the "The Last Place On Earth" book

[@TheMariepi3]

Scott should not have used horses, but camels from Mongolia, camels that have two humps and are adapted to extremely low temperatures and live in snow and ice. These camels stand perfectly -40 degrees, they can be two months without eating, and to drink if they do not have water they can eat snow. Scott's expedition could have consisted of 50 Mongolian camels, each carrying a sleigh or cart loaded with soybeans and wheat, wearing protective boots and warm clothes, and the expeditionaries mounted on camels, not to walk

[@MA-lb8dq]

I read his short story in school. It was sad. But Scott was kinda stupid and inexperienced as compared to the Norsemen. But the weather which he experienced was unbelievably cold which was pretty rare even at that era in Antarctica.

[@louise_rose]

He may have exaggerated how severe the bad weather on the return trip was to make his undoing seem more tragic, and dislodge some of the weight of his own failures as a planner. We have only his words in the diaries of his last weeks that there was a two-weeks straight ferocious snowstorm that kept them locked down just 20 km from the next food depot: the reality may be that he forced his two surviving comrades not to attempt to get there because he had decided it would look better with the Holloywood ending of their death together in the tent. Scott himself notes in his letter to the English people, written when he knew they were going to die, that "we very nearly got through" (had a good shot at making it back to the base) , but if they had got through, he would have had to answer many difficult questions from the public.

[@mayauk88]

Amundsen reached first

[@kaddijahdarboe8755]

Captain Scott

[@kalvarke2667]

"I love my homework"

[@imogenlewis3064]

Same

[@kalvarke2667]

i wrote that 2 months ago. Also I'm being sarcastic

[@workingboat]

Scott walked it, as the Norwegian rode it. Scott is the hero

[@johnduheaume6650]

Gaz Bee, yes up to a point, Amundsen relied heavily on dogs which were proper sledge dogs, all the Norwegians were experienced Nordic skiers, Scott had one experienced skier , Gran who he intensely disliked , read his polar notes, Scott had dogs but they were a mixed bunch, he had ponies which were not much use in deep or soft snow as they sank in, and track laying motor sledges which were hopelessly unreliable, one fell through the ice immediately on unloading from Terra Nova, the other two broke down repeatedly ( bearing failures) and over heated. Amundsen was focused on reaching the pole and returning, Scott put huge effort and resources into "research " meteorological and geological inparticular dragging large quantities of geological samples along with them, Scott experienced extraordinary severe weather on his return with extreme low temperatures and blizzards, they undoubtedly suffered from scurvy,, no fresh food for two years except seal or penguin meat which they killed in profusion at the base hut, a major problem was fuel, the kerosene cans had leaked so when they reached their depots on return there was not enough to cook or melt snow for drinks, they died 11 miles short of one ton depot as you know where they would have had ample fuel and food.

[@MA-lb8dq]

Sorry to say but being stupid and inexperienced doesnt make you a hero. Amundsen was smart.

[@louise_rose]

@@johnduheaume6650 Ironically, Gran was to be the very man who spotted Scott's death tent when they found him in late 1912. I wonder what he thought... Scott may have reasoned that it would look better if they died together in the tent "just off our One-Ton Depot" than making it back to the base camp and then having to answer a lot of questions at home, plus losing some of his toes from frostbite - and still going down in history as the defeated no.2 man. Heroic Hollywood ending vs loserdom and controversy. As a dead man he knew he would be able to speak through his diaries and his personal myth. We have only his own words for there having been a two-week continuous blizzard that kept them down in the tent and finished them. The notion that "it was barbaric to kill and eat the dogs" is just stupid - Amundsen's dogs were deliberately trained to do the pulling and save the strength of his men, there is nothing wrong in that.

[@johnduheaume6650]

@louise_rose thanks Louise, don't know what's happened to Gaz Bee 's comment or what it was, seems to have been deleted, not really relevant but interesting to know that Amundsen was on the failed Belgian expedition led by Adrien de Gerlache in 1897 that got stuck in the Bellinghausen Sea, the Belgica was infested with rats, that and the Antarctic winter darkness caused major mental health problems, how they eventually extricated the ship from the ice was heroic, read " Mad house at the End of the Earth" by Julian Sancton. If you ever need to name a famous Belgian its ; Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery!

[@louise_rose]

@@johnduheaume6650 Wow, that sounds really debilitating! The same year, the Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée attempted to fly in a hot-air balloon to the North Pole and over the Arctic Ocean, starting in northern Spitzbergen. Andrée had only limited experience of balloon flight and the year before, after a failed attempt where he didn't even get the balloon off the ground (because the winds were unfavourable for several weeks) he had received a letter from none other than Frithiof Nansen telling him, in half-veiled terms, that his plan was dangerous and unlikely to work. One of the members of the expedition drew the same conclusion and stepped off. When Andrée tried again in July 1897, he did manage to take off, but he lost the ability to steer the balloon soon after start and also drifted into heavy weather. After three days of bumpy flight and several ground touches, they came down for good on the ice and had to abandon both the balloon and their plan to get to the North Pole. The three men did reach Kvitöya (White Island) after an exhausting man-hauling trek across the pack ice, and once there they soon perished, for reasons that are disputed to this day. Their final camp was only discovered by chance in 1930, and just like Scott, the three men were treated as national heroes and martyrs - but Andrée's fame has suffered in the last fifty years in a way that's kinda similar to that of Scott. Andrée probably did realize after his first attempt that the project was doomed, that he and the two others on board would die, but he had received so much backing and encouragement that he felt he could not admit the flaws of his scheme and turn back.

[@5nightsatfreddys486]

We watched this at school

[@warmonger8799]

[@kopynd1]

excellent add for kfc, closed to day

[@cyberterro]

このようなシーンはなかったと思います。 スコット隊は科学調査が目的なので更に正確な極点を計測し、その場所に国旗を立てました。 悲劇は帰途に想定外の悪天候に襲われた事です。

[@guzelataroach4450]

NORGE!!!

[@damonhager7085]

An Englishman in 1912 would not break down in tears, particularly in front of his comrades. Where was this film made?

[@regmunday8354]

The crazy brave fools only had to wait two more years and they could have died for King and country in WW1 instead of an icy tomb after a tragically botched expedition.

[@louise_rose]

Ironically, several of the men of Shackleton's 1914-16 expedition (which weathered extreme perils after their ship got trapped in the ice and finally was lost, but without a single man dying - everyone finally returned to the UK) then went out to the west front and were killed there instead. Shackleton was a far better leader and explorer than Scott, by the way.

[@Pro_Sayan896]

4 class page no 66❤❤❤

[@이정환-x7p]

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[@mikegolf2322]

Poor fellas

[@believersunderground]

I'm back to the future. rotflol luvbug

[@maxkniveton578]

Hi

[@ayacheadouane1590]

THE BRITISH CHALLENGE

[@martaPaxetBonum]

😭

[@ayacheadouane1590]

these are the BRITISH

[@blessedbow720]

damn brits (not scott tho i don't have much respect for him either) robing amundsen of his glory

[@sirhoverhaft]

I agree. When Amundsen returned he was mocked by the british, while Scott was honored as a martyr.

[@kevinbergin9971]

Remember Britain's place in the world order in 1912 and their PR machine. Add to that Scott's ability to-turn-a-phrase.

[@hobomike6935]

Amundsen intentionally took every scientific instrument and precaution existing at the time to prove that he had indeed made it to the south pole, ensured that his journey was well-documented, and even left behind a tent and some important evidence to prove he had made it to, what he could best gather, was the south pole. (He was within just a few hundred meters of it, but "boxed" it in by going out in 4 different directions over the course of two days.) although some mocked him, he *couldn't* be accused of fraud; he had indeed gone where he said he did. The primary reason he was so paranoid about this was because the Cook/Peary fiasco in the _North Pole_ raised many eyebrows and was ultimately revealed to be falsified claims; although they had reached an impressive new _Farthest North_ Record, they had not truly attained the pole.

[@louise_rose]

@@sirhoverhaft Yep, the Brits had to make up for their defeat. Amundsen had won the South Pole, but he was faced with both a well-oiled PR machinery and the voice of a dead man speaking from beyond the grave (and with more literary talent than Amundsen). Eeven today, Amundsen is seen with more respect outside of the Anglo-Saxon world than in Britain.

[@kopynd1]

real men not wimps like today

[@kopynd1]

and later on another add when oats leave the tent and says am just going out I shant be long, and you see him at kfc while his friends are still in the tent

[@kevinbergin9971]

This could be a reality show in the making. Write it up, on spec., and send it in to TLC. They'll produce anything.

[@bananamontana3956]

I was fuming

[@louise_rose]

Doris Lessing recalled her mother exclaiming, with a dramatic arm gesture against the background of a aouthern African sunset (in the early 1930s): "And when I'm thinking of Captain Oates who DIED for his friends - he was a true gentleman!!". 😀The daughter replied: "But what else could he have done? He knew he was going to die anyway, you know..."