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Robert Scott: A Race to the South Pole

The first people to reach the South Pole was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegain. Robert Scott, who was English, arrived at the South Pole a month after Amundsenand died on the return journey to ship. Yet, strangely enough, Scott became a hero, but Amundsen did not.
Captain Rober Scott (1868-1912) was an offiver in the English navy. From 1901 to 1904, heled an expedition ti Antartica for a Bristish scientific organization called the Royal Geographical Society. His group traveled farther south than anyone else had ever done. He gathered information onrocks, weather, and climate, and he made maps. When he returned to Egland, he was a national hero.
A few year later, Scott decided to organize another expedition. He said that he wanted to make acomplete scientific study of Antartica, but his real goal was to be the first person at the South Pole. He took three doctors, several scientists, and a number of other men with him.
Scott,s groupsailed on the ship name Terra Nova in June 1910. When they learned that Amundsen was also on his way to the Pole.
Amundsen and Scott were very different from each other, and they made very differentplans. Amundsen planned everything very carefully. He took sleds and dog teams, as the great Artic explorers did. Scott took ponies (small horses) and a few dogs, but he planned to have his men pullthe sleds themselves for most of the trip. On earlier expeditions, as some dogs became weak, the men killed them for food for themselves and the other dogs. Amundsen did this too, and it helped himreach the Pole, but later people called him “dog eater.” Scott would not eat his dogs, and this was one reason he died on this expedition.
There were other differences between the two expeditions.Amundsen sailed 100 kilometers closer to the Pole than Scott did. Scott also had luck of having extremely bad weather- days of blizzards and strong winds. It was often – 40C (minus 40 degrees...