Greater Glory: Why Scott Let Amundsen Win the Race to the South Pole (preview)

For a limited time, the full text of this article is being made available for fans of Scientific American’s page on Facebook. Read it now or become a fan . One hundred years ago, in June 1911, Robert Falcon Scott and 32 explorers–most of them British scientists, naval officers or seafarers–were huddled in the darkness of the Antarctic winter, when the sun never rises above the horizon and up to eight feet of ice seals the surrounding sea

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Greater Glory: Why Scott Let Amundsen Win the Race to the South Pole (preview)