Robert Falcon Scott

History

The error of Scott in this forwarding was without question to have been unaware of the dominating contribution of the huskies Greenland board, contrary to Amundsen, whose resistance, force of traction and speed ensured the success of the Norwegian. He had chosen ponies which had to be cut down quickly, then forcing it to carry on its road by using human traction. He said that thus the victory most human and noblement is noblement achieved, but this design will have unfortunately to cost him very expensive.

Very demoralized by the fact of being arrived after Norwegian forwarding , Scott was in premium terribly ulcer by learning that Amundsen required of him in a letter to transmit to King Haakon of Norway the news of its victory, this one of course did not have any wounding intention, only envisaged if it would arrive to him misfortune but Scott did not hear it this ear, it felt plastered row of explorer to that of factor. The British thus took the way of the return hagards of exhaustion. Without dog to smell their trace of the outward journey, they wasted an invaluable time to find the way of the return whereas the winter approached very quickly.

Two of the members died in tragic circumstances, before the three survivors do not remain blocked by a blizzard to 20 km hardly of a deposit of vivres. Scott wrote: " The every day we prepared to return to us to this deposit but apart from the tent it is only whirling snow, I do not believe that we can hope for large thing now. " The three men remained at least nine days under their tent while their life from went away slowly. Its last forces, Scott devoted them to hold its newspaper and to write letters on letters, with his wife (to whom it addressed by writing my widow), with his/her old friends, and also a message with the general public: " I do not think that human beings already lived a month as that which we have just lived but for my part I do not regret this voyage". In Sir James Barrie, the dramatic author with whom one owes Peter Pan, Scott returned this testimony: " We furnish in this moment the proof that of the English can still die courageously, while fighting until the bout". The last note dates from the March 29th 1912: " Would have survived that I could write whole works of which it would be impossible to exhaust the richnesses on immense courage and the endurance of my companions who would have probably made tressaillir the heart of any anglais" , before concluding: " We will hold until the end but we become increasingly weak and obviously the end cannot be far. It is really damage but I do not think of being able to write more. Robert F Scott, March 29th, 1912. PS: For the love of god, take care of the nôtres".

The forwarding of help will discover under a Congère the tent with the three petrified bodies and Scott leant on its newspaper.

The fate did that the failure of Scott had finally more width than the victory of Amundsen, that was due less to the tragic circumstances of its disappearance than to the eloquence with which he reported his tour. Its newspaper and its letters created around him a true legend of nobility, bravery and heroism.

Questioned on this legendary competition, one of most memorable of all the 20th century, and in the tragic outcome, Amundsen, the winner, whom a critic badly intentioned asked whether it had not had quite simply a chance whereas it had missed in Scott, answered: " The victory smiles to those which took the necessary measures, one calls that the chance, the defeat awaits those which did not take the precautions necessary, one names that the malchance". The life so carefully organized of Amundsen knew it also a fine tragedy; in 1928, Amundsen perishes in the Arctique with the research of the explorer Italy N Umberto Nobile. Some transfer a poignant symbol in the burial that the fate held, to the two extremes of planet, with the two large rivals of the the Antarctic, Scott and Amundsen.

Its life

He was freemason and was married with the sculptor famous Kathleen Bruce with whom he had a Peter son born in 1909 Juste before his last departure for the Antarctic. Several sculptures of Kathleen Scott are presented to the National Gallery Portrait of London, a bust of Robert Scott is also exposed on the Waterloo place in the same city. On its side, Peter Markham Scott will be an ornithologist and a recognized sportsman, bronze medal with the OJ of Berlin in 1936 and cofounder of the worldwide organization for environmental protection (World Wide Fund for Nature), it is him which is at the origin of the famous logo, the panda.

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