Captain Scott's 1912 journey to the South Pole

men of extreem personal courage and fortitude,after them came the heros of the trench warfare and the blind obedience which formed the backbone of the british armed forces,and what built the british empire,and cemented the necessity of team work to overcome personal pain and fear.
after the second world war,values changed,and the atitudes of goverments became holier than thou!!
do gooders ,tree huggers and the likes made these heros out as self serving individuals,instead of the real heros they were.
i am a still serving captain who is in his fiftyfith year at sea,and in that half + century i have seen the values drop,and discipline frowned upon,i myself still run my vessel with an iron but fair hand,because in times of disaster it is the well discilined team that saves lives,and can pull you back from the brink of disaster.
i therfore salute these brave men and their contempories,i also salute shackleton,i have traced his footsteps and visited his grave on south georgia,were i bowed my head and gave my salutations.

I'm a hiker with all the modern gear but in winter up in the Cairngorms I find hard going at times those man amaze me ultimate hard men if you ask me.

All you people who wrote such disgusting remarks should read captain Scott's Diary again. Of course many mistakes were made . The wrong diet made them weakened ,also horses were used because in those days in England it was thought cruel to make dogs pull heavy loads . What did they do ? after the horses could go no furthur they were sent back and the men pulled the loads. That is called bravery ,something that you would not understand. Also Captain Scott could I believe, have continued the last 12 miles by himself on the return journey but again he didn't desert his men.who were hardly able to walk
I watched a TV program last year about a group of men who tried to follow the same route as Scott , They failed and had to be airlifted out !
Scots expedition was like scientists going into Space today.. They are travelling into completely unknown territory and no one to help them for months on end.In fact scientists know more about space now than Scott and his men Knew about the South Pole. but it didn't stop them going. Also in case you don't know they collected rock samples for Geologists to study ,These samples have given invaluable information about the area after using modern minerological testing methods .
I read Scott's diary when I was about 14 years old and I can remember crying to think of them dying in those Terrible conditions. I appreciate their Patriotic and Heroic efforts . They certainly didn't die in vane as you seem to think.
Elizabeth Engin (Ballinger)

A different time, a different era.....Don't forget that this was just prior to the Great War, where Honour and Courage meant everything to men of that time. Shackleton and Scott were hard taskmasters of the Officer Classes, and led from the front.....and men like Oates willingly sacrificed themselves in a failed bid to save their companions. Men were shortly about to go over the top of trenches to certain death......I could not even begin to understand how they thought this way. Instead, we live in a time where men now sacrifice themselves....not to save lives, but in order to kill as many other people as possible, and our Political Leaders want to lead us into the Abyss, but save their own skins and get rich in the process.

I cannot fathom JUST how resolute and tough these men were. I had to de-ice my car windscreen today...........I was SO glad to get the heater on afterwards.....it was -2 for 3 minutes, NOT -24 for 6 weeks!

To commemorate this event two teams from the Army have recreated the race to the pole, one team taking the route by Amundsen and the other by Scott. After 76days of manhauling sledges the Scott team arrived at the South Pole - 100years to the day!!!!. I can't post links (probably a good thing) but if you search for Scott Amundsen Race you'll get to their website where they have been posting daily audio updates. After listening to their post you realize how the weather at the South Pole still calls all the shots even with todays technology.

It was so cold that the liquid in their blisters froze

It was an expedition not a race. It seems that most people have forgotten that valuable data was collected. Maybe if they hadn't taken so much equipment or spent less time collecting collating they may have returned safely. Who knows?

thats when celebs were celebs and earned their status

lets face it these chaps had balls of steel for guts and brass for the cold

I agree Mark with your comments.Lets see if anyone today could make it back with the same equipment & weather conditions

Whats not widely known is his son Peter the bird man was protected by the BBC from any bad publicity until just before he died . Scott had been blamed for years

Certainly were a bunch of heros for trying, I'm going out for a walk, I may be sometime!!

Makes one proud to be British.

Whatever the outcome, or mistakes they were very brave men.

Pity they Didn't Take Dogs with them.!!

very brave men and their expedition despite the way it ended shows the price a man must pay for knoledge "man wants to know and when they sease to do so he is no longer a man"

His decision to take horses and tractors were mistakes .Amundsen used dogs. which became food when needed and he was brought up in those conditions

Soooo.... When are we gonna walk on the moon?

Such a waste of life for Nothing!