[00:02.17]Amundsen reached the Pole on 14 December

[00:05.66]and put a Norwegian flag there.

[00:08.64]Then he prepared for the return journey.

[00:11.65]Scott finally arrived at the Pole

[00:13.87]with four team members on 17 January.

[00:18.02]They were shocked when

[00:18.97]they saw the Norwegian flag.

[00:21.27]Scott wrote sadly in his diary:

[00:23.96]"Well, we have now lost the goal

[00:26.63]of our ambition and must face 800 miles

[00:30.48]of hard pushing

[00:32.67]and goodbye to most of our dreams."

[00:36.10]The return journey was one of the worst

[00:38.75]in the history of exploration.

[00:40.83]The men were soon exhausted

[00:42.60]and were running out of food.

[00:44.77]The weather conditions were terrible.

[00:47.18]Scott started to realize

[00:49.12]their hopeless situation:

[00:51.63]"...we are very cheerful,

[00:53.98]but what each man feels in his heart

[00:56.67]I can only guess.

[00:58.42]Putting on our shoes in the morning

[01:00.40]is getting slower and slower."

[01:03.40]However, on their way back they found time

[01:06.18]to look for rocks.

[01:07.67]They carried 20 kilos of rocks

[01:10.06]all the way with them.

[01:11.89]Later, these rocks proved that at one time

[01:15.00]in the distant past the Antarctic

[01:17.44]was covered by plants.

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