When Men Were Brave…

In 1910, Captain Robert Falcon Scott led a team of explorers on an expedition to be the first to reach the South Pole. On Jan. 17, 1912, after a brutal journey, Scott and his men arrived at their destination only to find that another team had arrived several weeks earlier. Exhausted and crestfallen, they began the 700-mile return trek to the ship they came in. On March 17, Scott describes the death of one of his crew. Scott and the rest of his crew never made it back. (From Diaries of Note)

Read Scott’s journal entry here.