Wretched weather sealed explorer's fate.(Robert Falcon Scott)

From: Science News | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: R.M. | Copyright information

Meteorological measurements may force historians to change their cold-hearted appraisals of Robert Falcon Scott, who lost the race to the South Pole in 1912 and then perished trying to return. Although scholars have often blamed Scott's poor planning, the explorer's temperature data show that his crew encountered unusually cold weather.

"They were lust slowly freezing to death. I think if it had been warmer, they'd have made it back," says Charles R. Stearns, a meteorolo...

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