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Episode 7: "Rejoice"
In early March, Scott and his three remaining companions' progress on the Great Ice Barrier is slowed by lowering
temperatures, stormy weather, continually deficient depot rations, scurvy, and Oates' deteriorating leg. Oates, at the end
of his strength, sacrifices himself on March 17 by crawling out of the Scott party tent and into a lethal blizzard, hoping
that his death will enable the others to complete their return journey. Scott, Wilson, and Bowers struggle onward. At
McMurdo base, Teddy Evans and his two men have returned, delirious with scurvy. Meares is not available for a depot-
replenishing dog run, and a young and inexperienced Apsley Cherry-Garrard is sent in this capacity. He arrives at One Ton
Depot with ample supplies and waits for Scott. With no sign of Scott, he debates whether to go further south with the
supplies or to depot them at One Ton and return to base. He chooses the latter. Scott, Wilson, and Bowers are a mere 11
miles from One Ton Depot when they are trapped in their tent by a blizzard lasting more than a week. Their food and fuel
exhausted, they die. In Europe, Amundsen is snubbed and mocked by English nobles and chastised by Nansen for "breaking his
word" and going to the South Pole instead of the North. Atkinson leads a search party in November, 1912 and finds the tent
with the bodies of Scott, Wilson, and Bowers. He deliberately misdiagnoses the scurvy of his dead colleagues and
attributes the deaths to wanton exposure. Word of Scott's death reaches England, and his diaries are published with his
wife's consent, but edited to remove any hint of failure of decision or behavior on the part of anyone involved in the
expedition.

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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.

[eastlight]

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

[jlaci84]

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

[crasmane1]

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

[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.

[rattyrattyrat]

Amundsen was the true master of the antarctic.

Scott was incompetent leader, and killed his people.

[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!

[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

[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.

[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.