Of the South Pole:

Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have labored to it without the reward of priority.


Journal, 17 January 1912, quoted in Scott's Last Expedition (1913) vol.1, ch.18


Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have labored to it without the reward of priority.

Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have labored to it without the reward of priority.

Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have labored to it without the reward of priority.

Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have labored to it without the reward of priority.