On 1 June, 1910, Captain Scott left London to begin his Antarctic
expedition. And he received a teledram that
explorer Roald Amundse was going South. Amundsen
had teams of dogs pulling the sledges and all his men were on skis and he made rapid progress. Amundsen reached
the Pole on 14 December and put a Norwegian flag there. Scott finally
arrived at the Pole with his men on 17 January and they saw Norwegian flag. The return journey was one of the worst in
the history of exploration. The men were exhausted and were running out
of food. Some of men died in spite of terrible
frostbite. But then a terrible storm
started and they could not leave their tent. Scott spent some of his
last hours writing letter to his wife. The remarkable courage shown by Captain Scott and his men
made them into heroes.