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Episode 2: "Minor Diversions"
After sending dog expert Cecil Meares to Siberia to obtain dogs and ponies (despite Meares' statement that he knows only
dogs and not horses), Scott travels to Norway in 1909 for a test of his motorized sledges and meets Nansen, who introduces
Scott to a young skier, Gran. Scott is impressed by Gran's skiing knowledge and decides to bring him to Antarctica as ski
instructor. Scott finds that an up-and-coming Teddy Evans is raising funds for an expedition of his own. Markham urges
Scott to coopt Evans and Evans' sponsors with a promise that Evans be Scott's Number One officer. In so-doing, Scott is
forced to dispense with the services of his initial Number One officer, engineer Reg Skelton. Amundsen is also required to
add a man to his expedition. To placate Nansen, he visits Hjelmar Johanssen, one of Nansen's old comrades, and enlists
Johanssen for the expedition with a written agreement that Johanssen obey him without question in all matters. Scott's
expedition departs England in a large ship, the Terra Nova, for a journey around Africa to New Zealand, where Scott plans
to collect the dogs and ponies which Meares has brought thereto from Siberia. Meanwhile, Amundsen and his men board the
Fram in Norway and trek for the Madeira coastline, where Amundsen states for his crew his true intentions. All of his men
agree to accompany him to the southern end of the Earth, and Amundsen's brother, Leon, travels by rowboat to Madeira to
announce Amundsen's true aim and send a cablegram to Scott. "Am heading south. Amundsen."

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[pinz2022]

03:30  God, what an ass!!

[benzo430]

Great show, I'm watching it now from net flix. can you put # on these so we can know what order to watch them? and do know any other artic or antarctic movies there out there I think I've watched them all but I'm still trying to find more. thanks for posting this movie!!!!