wired reports, and addresses mr. floso:
(...) Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, R.N., prepares to make a scientific measurement on his 1911-1912 Antarctic expedition.
Photo: Corbis
1912: A search party discovers the bodies of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott and two others in his Antarctic expedition, eight months after they perished on the Ross Ice Shelf on the return leg from the South Pole.
The bodies of Scott, his old friend Dr. Edward Wilson and Henry Bowers lay three abreast inside their tent, which was nearly buried in a snowdrift. The search party, led by Lt.-Surgeon Edward Atkinson, recovered Scott's diary and other documents, performed a burial service, then collapsed the tent over the bodies and built a snow cairn to mark the grave.
It wasn't supposed to end like that (...)
moncay [Mo, 12.11.2007] - category: [go world]
