ANTARCTIC HISTORY

01.11.2011

One hundred years ago today Capt Scott left his hut at Cape Evans for his ill-fated trip to the South Pole.  The ponies had left the previous day on 31 October. The Southern Party finished their mail, leaving it in a packing case before departing Cape Evans at 11am.  Each person was allowed 20lbs of personal gear – Bowes was the last to leave.   From Griffin Taylors diary “I ran to the end of the Cape and watched the little cavalcade – already well strung out – rapidly fade into the lonely white waste to southward”.