• #109 The Worst Journey in the World - Ep 2 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure

  • Mar 26 2025
  • Length: 36 mins
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#109 The Worst Journey in the World - Ep 2 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure

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  • Over a year before he and two of his men starved to death, just two days’ march from a depot with food and fuel, Scott confided to young biologist Apsley Cherry-Garrard. ‘This is the end of the pole.’ He wasn’t questioning his planning or his leadership. He was blaming what he saw as the failure of their ‘transport,’ their dogs and ponies. Now they would have to rely on the British Naval tradition of man-hauling sledges into blizzards of the Arctic winter. Scott doubted it was possible.

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