• #111 A live donkey or a dead lion? - Ep 4 Amundsen vs Scott - a very British failure

  • Apr 9 2025
  • Length: 39 mins
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#111 A live donkey or a dead lion? - Ep 4 Amundsen vs Scott - a very British failure

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  • Amundsen reached the South Pole a month before Scott, but his story never captured the imagination of the English. They wanted heroic tales of desperate survival in appalling conditions - even if those conditions were of their own making. Scott went on to be glorified in the First World War by men like Haig who used young men as German cannon fodder because he believed British spirit was stronger than the polar cold, or German bullets.

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