'It has happened! we have found what we sought! Good God, what a twist of fate.' So the young Norwegian Tryggve Gran recorded a grim discovery on 12 November 1912 by a search-party trekking across the blinding whiteness of Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier. They had found the snow-covered tent containing the bodies of Captain Scott and his two companions, Edward Wilson and 'Birdie' Bowers. They had died just eleven miles from the depot of food and fuel which might have saved them. Of the two other members of the Polar party, Captain Oates and Petty Officer Edgar Evans, there was no sign. However, Scott's diaries and letters, found by his body, recounted their terrible fate. It was a story that would resonate throughout the world and make heroes of them all.
If you imagine the most snooty, ugly, pompous English woman you can think of, you will be somewhere close to Preston. Her writing makes you want to spit.
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