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[TheUnregistered]

@gavboy7771 and @eastlight Really, I find your hasty and racist generalization of Americans even more disappointing.  If you can't make a comment without being incredibly condescending and patronizing, then feel free to spare us your holier-than-thou arrogance and snobbery. We can all live without it, especially when you can't even be bothered to check to see if the commentator is actually an American first.

[jlaci84]

The TV series is far more better, than Huntford's book.

[rattyrattyrat]

Amundsen was the true master of the antarctic.

Scott was incompetent leader, and killed his people.

[neil73]

The pickle that Cherry-gerrard found himself in at One Ton depot - the decision to go on or turn back, bothered him for the rest of his life. He only found out later that Scott and the rest lay dying in their tent a few miles further on.

[crasmane1]

@neil73 I think his account of Terra Nova is the best of all.

[TroyaE117]

Without risking the limbs of the actors, it is difficult to convey on film just how desperately cold things had become.

Typically, the men faced -35 F with a headwind during the day, and about -45 F at night, and for day after day.

Oates was so badly frostbitten that he cut the bottom out of his sleeping bag to avoid the agony of his feet thawing out each night.

The cold simply would not relent.

[gavboy7771]

frtw4428: if you're going to rant, old boy, make it an educated rant. The British flag is only called the Union Jack when flown at sea. Otherwise it's the Union Flag.

P.S. If you respond to this comment try to do so without swearing. I do find that a lot of you American chaps on youtube are unable to discuss the finer points of life without recourse to rather coarse language. There's a good fellow.

[frtw4428]

Thanks for the correction. And no, I'm not going to resort to any vulgarities as you presumptuously feel toward Americans. But then again, I'm not American! That was an erroneous assumption on your own part - typical of what I remarked about the Brits!

[eastlight]

@gavboy7771 Couldn't agree more. Why is it the obligatory foul mouthed American always turns up to make a comment?

[frtw4428]

Even the book's title, "Scott and Amundsen" deliberately caters to the snobbery and bigotry which have been the Brits' trademark for centuries. One refreshing point in this very fine series is the very end: we see the flag of NORWAY NOT THE UNION JACK waving at the South Pole!

[WC3POchannel10A]

You do not know much about this program do you, or the book it was based on? If there was any snobbery and bigotry it was from the book's author, Roland Huntford. He makes the British and especially Scott to be over the top fools and bad guys. Huntford had an axe to grind and used extreme prejudice in writing. The tv drama sticks to that pretty much, though it is an excellent production with great actors. Perhaps you should check the book out. You would probably like it.

[YossarianB25]

The Americans Cook and Peary laid claim to the North Pole, and they were found out to be frauders. One refreshing point is that; no American flag reached the North Pole

[pinz2022]

@YossarianB25

The North Pole is the worst. The savage, ever-shifting sea ice ensures that it simply cannot be reached unsupported.

Cook & Peary were both frauds. No one has ever gotten there without air support.