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In 1909 Amundsen chartered the Norwegian ship Fram pretending to go on a North Pole expidition, whilst secretly planning for the South Pole instead.
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Scott announces his second South Pole expidition.
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After every rushed preparations, Scott sailed from England to NZ with three motor sledges, nineteen Siberian ponies, thirty-three huskies, and twenty four mean
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Amundsden took 19 men, 97 huskies, a hut in sections and food for 2 years
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Fram docked in Madeira in Spain and Amundsen sent a telegram to Scott that he was going to the South Pole instead.
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They left NZ on the Terra Nova. Three days out, they were hit by a ferocious gale that lasted 36 hours and nearly sank the ship.
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Scott's old hut on Ross Island was blocked by ice, so new winter quarters were built at Cape Evans, also on Ross Island. Next Scott organised the setting up of depots and a telephone line between Cape Evans and Hut Point in less then a week. Amundsen and his team took a good year to do the same.
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Aumnsden reached Antartica and docked 100km closer to the pole then Scotts base camp
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Amundsen took 5 men and 52 huskies on their race to the South Pole. They traveled the most direct route and covered 32 km each day.
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Scott and his polar team left on their race to the South Pole with 14 men on 2 motor sleds, 10 ponies and 2 dog sleds. Scott had decided that they would ride motor sleds and ponies until they could go no further and then haul the supplies by foot for the rest of the way. The motor sleds soon broke down and the horses kept sinking through the ice and snow. The weather was miserable with blizzards.
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Amundsens team reach their last depot, 772 km from the pole
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Amundsens team creats a new depot for the return journey. They had 42 dogs left to pull 4 sleds
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it took Amundsen and his team 10 day to climbed an unexplored 3000m mountain glacier in very good weather . at the top they took 18 dogs to go on and they shot the rest
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Scotts tired and starved men shot their frozen horses. The men had to pull their own sleds in deep snow. Some men weresnow blinded and some fell down crevasses
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The team reached the South Pole. It was a glorious moment for the men and Norway. They had 17 dogs and three sleds. First they set up camp, then over three days they skied for 3 days in a 16km radius from the South Pole point to make of the correct position. Only then did they plant the Norwegian flag.
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Scott chose fellow explorers , Edward Wilson, Lawerance Oates, Edgar Evans and Henry Bowers to accompany him. The supplies had only been planned for a four man team.
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Scotts team reach the south pole only to find that Amundsen had beaten them by 33 day.
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They returned to the Bay of Whales healthy and excited
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a delirilous Evans died
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They arrived in Hobart, Tasmania to announce their victory
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Oates limped out of the tent during a raging blizzard saying ''i'm just going outside and i may be some time'' he did not return
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The blizzard lasted 8 days and took the lives of the remaining men just 18 km from their next supply depot.
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Scott's Last word:
"For God sakes look after out people." -
Scotts's second to last diary entry:
"Since the 21st we have had a continous gale WSW and SW. We had fuel to make two cups of tea a piece and bare food for two days on the 20th. Every day we have been ready to start for our depot 11 miles away, but outside the door of the tent it reamins a scene of whirling drift. I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. -
The men of scotts team were not discoverded until the next summer when the search party dug out their almost completely buired tent. Among their possession were 16kg of rock sample.
