This volume is a narrative of Scott’s Last Expedition from its departure from England in 1910 to its return to New Zealand in 1913. It does not, however, include the story of subsidiary parties except...

This postwar business is inartistic, for it is seldom that anyone does anything well for the sake of doing it well; and it is unchristian, if you value Christianity, for men are out to hurt and not to...

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and keep th...

Scott used to say that the worst part of an expedition was over when the preparation was finished. So no doubt it was with a sigh of relief that he saw the Terra Nova out from Cardiff into the Atlanti...

“Ten minutes to four, sir!” It is an oilskinned and dripping seaman, and the officer of the watch, or his so-called snotty, as the case may be, wakes sufficiently to ask: “What’s it like?” “Two hoops,...

Telegrams from all parts of the world, special trains, all ships dressed, crowds and waving hands, steamers out to the Heads and a general hullabaloo⁠—these were the incidents of Saturday, November 26...

“They say it’s going to blow like hell. Go and look at the glass.” Thus Titus Oates quietly to me a few hours before we left the pack. I went and looked at the barograph and it made me feel seasick. W...

Scott: Meares Wilson: Atkinson Lieut. Evans: Cherry-Garrard Bowers: Gran Oates: Keohane Imaginative friends of the thirteen men who started from Cape Evans on January 24, 1911, may have thought of the...

(From a Letter written by Bowers) As our loads were so light Titus thought it would be better for the ponies to do their full march in one stretch and so have a longer rest. We, therefore, decided to ...

The history of the dog-teams was eventful. We travelled fast, doing nearly 78 miles in the first three days, by which time we were approaching Corner Camp. The dogs were thin and hungry and we were pu...

And so we came back to our comfortable hut. Whatever merit there may be in going to the Antarctic, once there you must not credit yourself for being there. To spend a year in the hut at Cape Evans bec...

The following list of the Winter Journey sledge weights (for three men) is taken from the reckoning made by Bowers before we started: “Antarctic” biscuit: 135 3 Cases for same: 12 Pemmican: 110 Butter...

“It was a great disappointment to Dr. Wilson that no Emperor Penguin embryos were obtained during the cruise of the Discovery. But though embryos were conspicuous by their absence in the Emperor eggs ...

Inside was pandemonium. Most men had gone to bed, and I have a blurred memory of men in pyjamas and dressing-gowns getting hold of me and trying to get the chunks of armour which were my clothes to le...

The departure from Cape Evans at 11 p.m. on November 1 is described by Griffith Taylor, who started a few days later on the second Geological Journey with his own party: “On the 31st October the pony ...

The departure from Cape Evans at 11 p.m. on November 1 is described by Griffith Taylor, who started a few days later on the second Geological Journey with his own party: “On the 31st October the pony ...

The ponies had dragged twenty-four weekly units of food for four men to some five miles from the bottom of the glacier, but we were late. For some days we had been eating the Summit ration, that is th...

The ponies had dragged twenty-four weekly units of food for four men to some five miles from the bottom of the glacier, but we were late. For some days we had been eating the Summit ration, that is th...

Scott: Lieut. Evans Wilson: Bowers Oates: Lashly Seaman Evans: Crean For the first week on the plateau Bowers wrote a full diary, which I give below. After December 28 there are little more than fragm...

Scott: Lieut. Evans Wilson: Bowers Oates: Lashly Seaman Evans: Crean For the first week on the plateau Bowers wrote a full diary, which I give below. After December 28 there are little more than fragm...

Two Dog Teams (Meares and Dimitri) turned back from the bottom of the Beardmore Glacier on December 11, 1911. They reached Hut Point on January 4, 1912. First Supporting Party (Atkinson, Cherry-Garrar...

Two Dog Teams (Meares and Dimitri) turned back from the bottom of the Beardmore Glacier on December 11, 1911. They reached Hut Point on January 4, 1912. First Supporting Party (Atkinson, Cherry-Garrar...

Let us come back to Cape Evans after the return of the First Supporting Party. Hitherto our ways had always been happy: for the most part they had been pleasant. Scott was going to reach the Pole, pro...

Scott: Oates Wilson: Seaman Evans Lieut. Evans: Day Simpson: Forde Meares: Clissold Taylor: Anton Ponting: Lashly Archer: Williamson Atkinson: Crean Cherry-Garrard: Keohane Wright: Dimitri Debenham: H...

A lecture given at this time by Wright on Barrier Surfaces is especially interesting with relation to the Winter Journey and the tragedy of the Polar Party. The general tend of friction set up by a sl...

The flowers were of snow, the rivers of ice, and if Stevenson had been to the Antarctic he would have made them so. God sent His daylight to scatter the nightmares of the darkness. I can remember now ...

October 28. Hut Point. A beautiful day. We finished digging out the stable for the mules this morning and brought in some blubber this afternoon. The Bluff has its cap on, but otherwise the sky is nea...

Scott: One Ton [79° 9′]. Wilson: Upper Barrier or Mount Hooper [80° 2′]. Bowers: Middle Barrier [81° 5′]. Oates: Lower Barrier [82° 7′]. Seaman Evans: Shambles Camp [N. of Gateway]. Scott returned fro...

Scott: One Ton [79° 9′]. Wilson: Upper Barrier or Mount Hooper [80° 2′]. Bowers: Middle Barrier [81° 5′]. Oates: Lower Barrier [82° 7′]. Seaman Evans: Shambles Camp [N. of Gateway]. Scott returned fro...

Stevenson has written of a traveller whose wife slumbered by his side what time his spirit re-adventured forth in memory of days gone by. He was quite happy about it, and I suppose his travels had bee...

Stevenson has written of a traveller whose wife slumbered by his side what time his spirit re-adventured forth in memory of days gone by. He was quite happy about it, and I suppose his travels had bee...

I shall inevitably be asked for a word of mature judgment of the expedition of a kind that was impossible when we were all close up to it, and when I was a subaltern of 24, not incapable of judging my...

An Antarctic blizzard is a high southerly wind generally accompanied by clouds of drifting snow, partly falling from above, partly picked up from the surface. In the daylight of summer a tent cannot b...

Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Introduction. ↩ Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole, vol. i, p. 23. ↩ Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole, vol. i, p. 28. ↩ Cook, A Voyage Towards the South ...