Roald amundsen ,a Norwegian, was th

Roald amundsen ,a Norwegian, was the first person to reach the south pole .Robert scott, who was English ,arrived at the south pole a month after amundsen and died on the return journey to his ship. Yet ,strangely enough ,scott became a hero ,but amundsen did not .
Captain Robert scott (1868-1912)was an officer in the English navy. He led an expedition to Antarctica in 1902-1904 for a British scientific organization called the royal Geographical society . his group traveled farther south than anyone else had ever done ,and he gathered information on rocks, weather ,an climate, and made maps. When he returned to England ,he was a national hero.
A few years later, he decided to organize another expedition. He said he wanted to make a complete scientific study of Antarctica, but he really wanted to be the first person ,several scientists, and other men with him.
They sailed on a ship named the terra nova in june 1910 ,but when they reached Australia,they learned that amundsen was also on his way to the pole .
Amundsen and scott were very different from each other an made very differert plans.
Amundsen planned everything very carefully. He took sleds and dog teams as the great arctic explorers did . scott took ponies (small horses)and a few dogs ,but he planned to have his men pull the sleds themselves for most of the trip . on other 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 him reach the pole ,but later people called him ?dog eater.? Socct would not eat dogs , and this was one reason he died on this expedition.
There were other differences between the two expedition. Amundsen sailed 100 kilometers closer to the pole than scott did , scott also has the bad luck of having very bad weather-days of blizzards and strong winds . it was often ?40???(minus 40 degrees Celsius).
Scoot and his men built a building near the ocean`s edge as their base camp and spent the winter there. They uses sleds and ponies to carry a ton of supplies farther inland to a place that thy named the one ton depot . when spring came, a few of the men to leave supplies along the way. However ,after only a few days ,the sleds broke down and the men had to pull them.
A few days later ,scott started for the south pole with a few men. The whole journey was very difficult. Scott and his men either walked through deep snow or skied over ice and uneven ground. The climate was too difficult for the ponies, and thy all died. There were frequent snowstorms. Sometimes the men couldn`t leave their tents for several days because of blizzards.
When scott was 260 kilometers from the pole ,he sent all but four men back to the base camp. This was probably his most serious mistake. He had a tent big enough for 4 people and only enough food and fuel for 4,but now there were 5. Also, one man had left his skis behind with some of the supplies. He had to walk in the snow ,and this slowed down the whole group.
On January 17 ,1912,scott and his men reached the pole ,only to find a first people to reach the south pole .they had lost the race .
The next day, they started the 1300-kilometer journey back to their base camp, pulling their heavy sleds full of supplies. The trip back was worse than the trip on the way to the pole .they became weak from hunger . at times the whiteness everywhere made them blind. Their fingers and toes began to freeze, and two of the men fell and injured themselves. They never has enough fuel to keep warm in their tent. They became exhausted ,and it was more and more difficult to pull the sleds.
Finally, one man died. Then another became so weak that he knew he was endangering the livers of the others. One night he left the tent and never returned. He walked out into the blizzard to die instead of holding back the other three.
Every day scott described the terrible journey in his diary. On march 21, the three remaining men were only 20 kilometers from the one ton depot, but another blizzard kept them in their tent. On that day, scott wrote his last words in his diary.
A search party found the three bodies 8 months later. They also found scott1s diary excellent photographs of the expedition, and letters to take back to England. The search party left the frozen bodies where they found them.
Today the building at the base camp is still there. Inside there are supplies, furniture, and things that belonged to the men. They are left just the way they were when scott`s expedition was there. New Zealand takes care of the building and its contents.
Robert scott`s name lives on as a great explorer of Antarctica, the last part of the earth that people explored. He was not the first to reach the south pole, and he and his men died because of his bad planning ,but he is remembered as one of the great heroes of exploration.