he Terra Nova Expedition reached the South Pole but lost the race to Amundsen. On the return journey, Robert Falcon Scott and his four companions faced injuries, hunger, leaking kerosene, and exceptionally severe cold.

We examine the polar party’s route, supply failures, the deaths of Edgar Evans and Lawrence Oates, the final camp 18 kilometers from the depot, and the fate of the tent, which continues to move toward the sea together with the Ross Ice Shelf.

00:00 — Scott’s last entry
01:12 — The journey begins and two approaches to the pole
03:29 — The five members of the polar party
05:01 — Amundsen’s flag ahead
06:25 — The return journey and Evans’s death
07:31 — Reaching the Ross Ice Shelf
08:26 — The exceptional cold of March 1912
10:05 — Sledge friction and the calorie deficit
11:35 — The disappearing kerosene
12:22 — Scott’s mistakes or fatal weather
13:16 — Lawrence Oates’s final departure
14:24 — One Ton Depot and the rescue that never happened
16:32 — The final tent and letters
18:52 — Discovery of the dead party
22:04 — The grave moving toward the sea

Primary sources:
Robert Falcon Scott’s diaries from his second Antarctic expedition — British Library archive
https://searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/...

Susan Solomon and Charles Stearns’s study on the role of weather in the death of Scott’s party
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.23.13012

Robert Headland’s study on the location and future of Scott’s final camp
https://www.cambridge.org/core/servic...

Archived meteorological records from the Terra Nova Expedition — UK National Meteorological Archive
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/api/asse...

Scientific materials, field diaries, and sketches from the Terra Nova Expedition — Natural History Museum
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/ser...

Palaeobotanical collection containing Glossopteris specimens gathered by Scott’s expedition
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/ser...

Scott’s expedition hut at Cape Evans — Antarctic Heritage Trust
https://nzaht.org/conserve/explorer-b...