When You Trek 800 Miles Just to Find Someone Else's Flag: Scott's Devastating Second Place Finish at the South Pole
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When You Trek 800 Miles Just to Find Someone Else's Flag: Scott's Devastating Second Place Finish at the South Pole
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The scene that greeted Scott's exhausted British party was the polar explorer's equivalent of finding someone else's car in your parking spot—if that parking spot happened to be at the bottom of the Earth and you'd just hauled sledges across 800 miles of Antarctic ice to get there. There, flapping mockingly in the wind, was the Norwegian flag. Nearby stood a tent Amundsen had thoughtfully left behind, containing a letter addressed to the King of Norway and, with characteristic Scandinavian thoroughness, a note asking Scott to kindly deliver it in case Amundsen's team didn't make it back.
Scott's diary entry that day drips with British understatement: "The worst has happened" and "All the day dreams must go." One can practically hear the stiff upper lip quivering. His companion, Edward Wilson, took photographs of the dejected team posing beside the Norwegian flag—images that rank among history's most depressing tourist snapshots.
The tragedy compounded when Scott and all four of his polar companions perished on the return journey, just eleven miles from a supply depot that might have saved them. Their frozen bodies and Scott's journals were discovered eight months later, transforming a tale of coming in second into one of British heroic martyrdom that somehow outshone Amundsen's actual victory in the public imagination for decades.
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