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We have 23 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:09,240 arrived yet, but under very different circumstances from those expected. We've had a horrible 24 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:14,200 day. The nation ran high all morning since we were nearing our goal and thought to be 25 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:19,240 the first five men to reach the pole. But our hopes were dashed when Evans sighted a flag 26 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:25,640 in a tent near the spot. The Norwegians have forestalled us from our first to get here. 27 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:30,680 In the empty tent under the name of their leader, Rauald Amundsen, were listed the five 28 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:38,280 men who were with him. It was a terrible disappointment. And I'm very sorry for my loyal companions. 29 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:43,560 There's no doubt of it now. They did find an easier way up over the barrier. We thought 30 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:48,520 as much back at Cape Armitage. It's a rotten shame, men, and I'm sorry. Good Lord, Captain 31 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,080 Scott, you've done everything you could. And there's more to do. More for all of us. 32 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:58,200 Eight hundred miles, as a matter of fact. Are you ready to start back, Evans? I can't 33 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:03,720 think of a reason to stay in this ruddy, miserable place. Is the fledge ready, Oates? A bit frozen 34 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:08,760 in, I suppose. Yes, I imagine. Wilson, do you vote to start? The faster, the better, 35 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:14,040 Captain. Bowers, can you get a sight and start us off on course? The sky is a bit overcast, 36 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:22,040 but I think so. Yes, I think I can. We'll go then, as quickly as we can. The minute 37 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:37,080 saved here will mean a minute more of comfort aboard the ship. January 18th, temperature 38 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:44,360 minus 26 p.m. The moment of departure is here. It is impossible to collect our thoughts since 39 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:50,520 few of them are voiced. But I know the same are with all of us. Can we pull the heavy 40 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:55,320 sledge with great distance? Eight hundred miles of attractors, windflip, barrier and drift. 41 00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:01,400 Can we find the carefully arranged supply camp being left on our trail? Can we trust 42 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:19,240 our navigation instruments? Can we survive? January 21st, temperature minus 30.4. 43 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:25,960 This morning, while freeing the sledge from the ice, Evans snatched his hand. I'm afraid 44 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,440 the poor chap is in for trouble as wounds will not close in this cold. And we absolutely 45 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:42,360 cannot spare the time to camp as our rations are very low, as well as our fuel. January 46 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:49,320 28th, night camp, temperature minus 27. The miles continue to fall behind us, but with 47 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:54,040 painful slowness. Our diet and weather, our general condition has improved since finding 48 00:04:54,040 --> 00:05:00,680 our have to be supply camp. Only 42 miles to the next one, but we're not without ailments. 49 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:07,880 Oats is suffering from a very cold foot. Evans' hands and face are in a horrible state. And 50 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:13,400 tonight, Wilson is suffering torches from snow blindness. Bowers and I are the only ones without 51 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:30,200 troubles at present. Oh, wait. Hold on. I've got to rest. Don't try to help, Evans. Just hold on 52 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:37,560 the sledge. I wasn't helping, Captain. I've got to rest anyway. I get dizzy. Elzora, don't sit down, 53 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,560 Evans. Stay up on your feet. Can't we put him in his sleeping bag and put him on the sledge? 54 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:46,840 No, I won't do that. We can pull him. I won't do it. If it's for the good of the rest of us, Evans. 55 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:53,320 No, no. I'll stay here first. Then if it's an order. No, not that kind of an order. I won't be 56 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:58,120 dragged on by the rest of you. Then you've got to come along. Seven or eight more miles, Evans. 57 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,720 Then we'll be stopping for the rest of our meals. I'm not sicking of those miles. 58 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:07,720 How many more seven miles are there? Let's cover these before. How many more? Evans. 59 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:15,720 I'll do the best I can. I'm sure of it, Evans. And everything will be all right? Yes, sir. 60 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,720 All right. There'll be hot food in a few more hours. Let's move on. 61 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:33,720 Let's move on. February 11th, temperature minus 26.2. The worst day we've had during the trip and 62 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:39,720 greatly owing to our own fault. We started on a wretched surface, pulling on sledge. The light was 63 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:45,720 horrible. Dulled by fog, it made everything look fantastic. As we went on, the light knew worse, and 64 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:51,720 we found ourselves in pressure. Then came the fatal decision to steer east. The disturbance grew worse. 65 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:57,720 My spirits received a very rude shock. The farther we plunged ahead, the less possible it seemed that 66 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:03,720 we could find the way out. We struggled until 9 p.m. to do nothing more but make camp. 67 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,720 There's no getting away from the fact that we are not pulling strong. 68 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:15,720 Jamesbury Pony Sledge, John Wright Pony Sledge, Joe Balls... 69 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:21,720 Your eyes, Wilson. How are they? Better, I think. Let me see. Yes, I think they are. 70 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:28,720 Pony Sledge... Oh, Evans! George... Oh, yes. What were you saying? 71 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:34,720 Was I saying something? How did it go on? I thought I was asleep. 72 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:39,720 Perhaps you were. Know what you were saying, Evans? You were naming the schools that donated 73 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:46,720 sledges for the expedition. Oh, I thought I was asleep. I must have been dreaming about home. 74 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:53,720 I like it better there than I do here. I mean, I like dreaming about it. I like it as well. 75 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:58,720 Give as much rest as you can, Evans. We'll want an early start. 76 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:04,720 Well, how's your foot? All right. It's better, Captain. It bothers a bit in the morning, but then it gets better. 77 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,720 Good. How do you get along so well, Captain? 78 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,720 Well, because I know everything is going to be all right. Are you just cheering us up or do you really think so? 79 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:18,720 Of course I think so. You know as well as I, the splendid panning we've had, everything is going precisely as it should. 80 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:31,720 There's a line of supply camps right back to the ship. All we've got to do is follow it. 81 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:37,720 February 17th, a very terrible day, although we got out of the turmoil. 82 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:41,720 Evans looked a little better after a good sleep and declared he was all right. 83 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:47,720 He started in his place on the traces, but half an hour later he had to leave the sled and follow behind. 84 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:55,720 At the first west stop, he came up very slowly. He stayed with us for a while, then dropped out again. 85 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:01,720 We tried to pull him on the stretch, but he had not the strength, and he fell behind. 86 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:06,720 At lunch camp, we saw him coming far astern, and when we looked again, he had fallen. 87 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:13,720 Evans, Evans, is he alive? 88 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:20,720 Wait, there's Jerry Rissi. Jerry, move. Come on, Evans, Evans. 89 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,720 Oh no, let me go. 90 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:25,720 Walk, Evans, walk. Walk, Evans. 91 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,720 I don't want to. 92 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,720 Go and get the other bowels. Bring the switch. 93 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:37,720 Evans, Evans, listen to me. You can't lie here. You've got to move. 94 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:42,720 Evans, come on, get up. You have to do it. They can't lift you. 95 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:51,720 Over there, over there by the tree. Go fetch. Over there. 96 00:09:51,720 --> 00:10:03,720 When we got him into the tent, he was quite comatose, and he died quietly at 12.30 p.m. 97 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:11,720 It's a terrible thing to lose a companion that way. His passing is a frightfully personal thing to each of us. 98 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:18,720 As is usual, our doubts and fears are not voiced, but I don't think that one of us does not wonder 99 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:23,720 how many of the remaining four can survive. 100 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,720 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Herbert Marshall in The Diary of Captain Scott, 101 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:50,720 tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 102 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:04,720 Hey, Wilcox, are them Auto Light spark plugs really as slick as a hair tail? 103 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:09,720 You bet they are, Sheriff. You see, Auto Light spark plugs are designed by the same Auto Light engineers 104 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,720 who designed the coil, distributor, starting motor, generator, and all the other important parts 105 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:21,720 of the complete ignition systems used as original equipment on many leading makes of our finest cars, trucks, and tractors. 106 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,720 Well, what about that Auto Light resistor spark plug? 107 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:30,720 Why, Sheriff, that Auto Light resistor spark plug gives double life, greater gas savings, and smoother performance 108 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,720 as compared to spark plugs without a built-in resistor. 109 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,720 And what's more, it reduces spark plug interference with radio and television reception. 110 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:44,720 The Auto Light resistor spark plug is just one of a complete line of ignition-engineered Auto Light spark plugs 111 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,720 designed and built for every use. 112 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:54,720 So, friends, take a tip from me and have your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer check your spark plugs soon. 113 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:59,720 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 114 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:04,720 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Mr. Herbert Marshall 115 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:09,720 in Elliot Lewis's production of The Diary of Captain Scott, 116 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:15,720 a true story well calculated to keep you in suspense. 117 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:27,720 Music 118 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:32,720 February 22nd, night camp, temperature minus 22.9. 119 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,720 There's little doubt we have inflow of rock in the critical time going home, 120 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,720 and the lateness of the seas may make it rather serious. 121 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:44,720 We never won the march of eight and a half miles with greater difficulty than we did today. 122 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,720 We've come now a bit more than half the distance, 123 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:53,720 which leaves almost 400 distressing miles of dragging still before us. 124 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,720 On the bright side, we found another supply camp and have 10 full days of provisions 125 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,720 and have less than 70 miles to the next camp. 126 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:07,720 Music 127 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:14,720 February 25th, night camp, temperature minus 23.2. 128 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,720 A little despondent again. 129 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,720 The weather is terrible so far. 130 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,720 Oates' foot is almost completely gone and he is helpless. 131 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,720 The thieves are pulling up to Wilson, almost totally blind now. 132 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,720 They are me, and we do not do well at all. 133 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:35,720 The truth is there is not enough energy in our ration. 134 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:41,720 Without tremendous intakes of energy in this cold, we suffer physically and mentally too. 135 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,720 There is little communication between us in the tent at night now. 136 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:55,720 Oates' voice. 137 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:56,720 Yes? 138 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:57,720 What is it, Scott? 139 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,720 Well, I thought I heard something. 140 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:01,720 I thought you said something, didn't you? 141 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:02,720 No. 142 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:04,720 Bowers, I forgot to talk to you. 143 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:05,720 Bowers. 144 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:06,720 Of course. 145 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:08,720 I, Bowers, am terribly worried. 146 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:10,720 I didn't think it was you, Nicole. 147 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:12,720 I heard my wife. 148 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:14,720 Under these conditions, I hardly think... 149 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:16,720 Wait, let me tell you. 150 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,720 It started last night. 151 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,720 I was with her, Bowers, and it wasn't a dream. 152 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:25,720 I was lying awake, looking up at the peak of the tent. 153 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,720 And suddenly I was with her. 154 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:29,720 In our library at home. 155 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:30,720 It must have been a dream. 156 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,720 No, I wasn't. 157 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:34,720 I could feel everything and smell everything. 158 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,720 The perfume she was wearing, the warmth from the fire. 159 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:40,720 I was warm, Bowers. 160 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:43,720 I was warm even after I came back here. 161 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,720 No dream can accomplish that. 162 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,720 I went home. 163 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,720 I held her in my arms. 164 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,720 And we went up to see our son. 165 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,720 It was night and he was asleep. 166 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,720 And then we went back to the library. 167 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,720 And sat before the fire. 168 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,720 And it was warm. 169 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,720 I'm sorry that he's asleep, Bob. 170 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:07,720 It is late. 171 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:08,720 I know. 172 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:09,720 From every time. 173 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,720 I know all what tales I'll have to tell him. 174 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:14,720 Courageous men serving their country. 175 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,720 I'll make him proud to be an Englishman. 176 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,720 Oh, I'm sure he will be, darling. 177 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:21,720 Above all, we must guard him against indolence. 178 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,720 We must make him a strenuous man. 179 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,720 Interest him in natural history, better than games. 180 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:28,720 He'll be a good man. 181 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,720 And you, Kate, if I could tell you the millions of thoughts I've had of you. 182 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:34,720 I was with you, I think. 183 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,720 I worried so. 184 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,720 I knew you must have been suffering. 185 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,720 There was some. 186 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,720 There's bound to be one of features as great as ours. 187 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:44,720 The years of planning. 188 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:46,720 Eight hundred miles we marched to the pole. 189 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,720 Eight hundred back. 190 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:50,720 But what wealth we brought to the scientists. 191 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,720 And what honor we brought to England. 192 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:54,720 Your home, darling. 193 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,720 And that's more important than science and honor. 194 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,720 Your home and you won't ever go away again. 195 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:00,720 No. 196 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,720 I've served my duty, I think. 197 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,720 I shall collect and arrange my notes. 198 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,720 Perhaps I shall write a book and describe the bottom of the world and living there. 199 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,720 But never go back. 200 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,720 The drift snow like finest flower. 201 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,720 Flickering up under one's clothing and stinging as a sandblast. 202 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,720 But never go back. 203 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,720 The cloudy columns of snow drift advancing from the south. 204 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,720 And heralding the storm. 205 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,720 But never go back. 206 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,720 No, I like it here. 207 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,720 I'm warm. 208 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:32,720 Warm. 209 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,720 I'm warm. 210 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:36,720 It was a dream, Scott. 211 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,720 Good Lord, it's nothing to worry about. 212 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,720 It was not a dream. 213 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,720 All of your senses don't coordinate in a dream. 214 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,720 You don't smell and touch and feel. 215 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:46,720 Well, I told you. 216 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:50,720 If it's the first sign of a breakdown, I want you to know. 217 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:52,720 Of course it isn't. You're in splendid shape. 218 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,720 Thanks, Bowers. 219 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:56,720 I owe you a great deal. 220 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:57,720 Nonsense. 221 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:59,720 At least I owe you the privilege of getting into the sleep. 222 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:01,720 Good night, Bowers. 223 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:24,720 Good night. 224 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:25,720 March 1st. 225 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,720 Lunch. Very cold last night. 226 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,720 Minimum minus forty-one point five. 227 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,720 But our fortunes have changed. 228 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:34,720 At least the future looks brighter. 229 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,720 Bowers' excellent navigating has kept us precisely on course. 230 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,720 And on it we found an unexpected supply tent. 231 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,720 Containing rations. 232 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,720 And a note addressed to me. 233 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,720 The men back at the Cape had taken it upon themselves to change plans. 234 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,720 For which we are happy. 235 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,720 The next camp, we expected only surprise, has been enlarged and manned. 236 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,720 We ought to be met there with dog sedges. 237 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,720 At that point our dragging days are finished. 238 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:07,720 And only twenty-four and a half miles away. 239 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,720 March 2nd. Night camp. 240 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,720 All the elation of yesterday has been crashed. 241 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:17,720 The fortune rarely comes, Stingley. 242 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,720 This day we have suffered three distinct blows. 243 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:25,720 First, through some oversight our fuel oil supply is less than half what we thought it was. 244 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:30,720 Second, Titus Oates disclosed his feet. 245 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:32,720 They show very bad indeed. 246 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:34,720 They will never be saved. 247 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:36,720 Lastly, the weather has turned on us. 248 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,720 Blizzard conditions are extreme. 249 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,720 We are in a very tight place indeed. 250 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,720 But none of us is despondent. 251 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:53,720 Or at least none shows it. 252 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,720 March 10th. Stingley going downhill. 253 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,720 Midday, minus forty-three. 254 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:02,720 Blizzard still with us. 255 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,720 Oates unable to go on so camped at noon. 256 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:10,720 Have covered only eleven miles in the eight days past. 257 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:11,720 Captain. 258 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:12,720 Yes, Oates. 259 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:19,720 It's quite difficult to say this without sounding heroic, but I'm going to die and I know it. 260 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,720 No you aren't, Oates. You mustn't talk like that. 261 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,720 No, it's no good, Captain. I know I am and I'm not afraid. 262 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:24,720 Stop that, Oates. 263 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:26,720 I know what I'm saying. 264 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:28,720 And the quicker it happens the better. 265 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,720 I'm not going to hold the rest of you back. 266 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:33,720 I know how I felt about poor Evans. 267 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,720 He was holding us back and I knew he was going to die and I was angry at him for keeping on as long as he did. 268 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:38,720 Oates! 269 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:39,720 What kind of talk is that, Oates? 270 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,720 It's the truth and I don't care. 271 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:47,720 When he was holding us back and I knew there was no chance of him, I wanted him to die. 272 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:52,720 I don't know what the rest of you were thinking, but that's what I was. 273 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,720 And now I'm holding you back. 274 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,720 And I won't have that. 275 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,720 I want you to leave me. 276 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:00,720 We'll not leave you, Oates. 277 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:02,720 Please, Captain. 278 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:09,720 I'm not afraid. I'd like to go. I'm tired and it hurts and I'd like to go to sleep and not wake up. 279 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,720 I've no family to leave the rest of you. 280 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,720 We won't leave you, Oates. You know that. 281 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:16,720 I want it that way. 282 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,720 I'll get in my sleeping bag and I'll go to sleep. 283 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,720 I'm not afraid. I want to. 284 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,720 You can't do that, Oates. 285 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,720 Even if we agreed with you, we couldn't leave you. 286 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,720 Please, Captain. You know I'm right. 287 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:31,720 All of you know. 288 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,720 Please, Captain. 289 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:46,720 Please. 290 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,720 March 15th or 17th. 291 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:53,720 Lost track of dates, but I think the last is correct. 292 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,720 Poor Tyler's Oates is gone. 293 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,720 Should this journal be found, I want these facts recorded. 294 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,720 This was he then. 295 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,720 He woke in the morning yesterday. 296 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,720 It was blowing a blizzard. 297 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:13,720 He said, I'm just going outside. It shall be long. 298 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:19,720 He went out into the blizzard and we have not seen him since. 299 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:43,720 Oates! Oates! Where are you? Oates! Come back! Come back! Come back! 300 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,720 March 18th. Nightcap. 301 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,720 We are 14 miles away from the sledge camp. 302 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,720 But ill fortune presses my right foot is gone. 303 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:58,720 Two days ago I was power possessor. The best feet now one is gone. 304 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:09,720 The others are still confident of giving food, but I don't know. 305 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,720 March 21st. 306 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,720 Got within 11 miles of dog sledge camp yesterday. 307 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,720 The blizzard forced us to lay up. 308 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,720 We cannot move against it. We do not dare to leave the tent. 309 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,720 We would surely die if we dared. 310 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:32,720 Bob? Oh Bob? Here I am Bob. Here I am. 311 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,720 Here I am Bob. Over here. 312 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:35,720 Oh, I didn't see you. 313 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,720 So nice in the sun. I thought I'd sit out for a bit. 314 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:39,720 Too nice. 315 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,720 Nothing like this at your precious South Pole. 316 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:44,720 No, nothing like this. 317 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,720 Down there even when the sun is high it's always weak and diffuse. 318 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,720 And because of the reflection from the ice on every side, 319 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,720 there never is a definite shadow over the number of shadows of any man or object. 320 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:57,720 I think you love it. 321 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,720 No, I hate it. 322 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:04,720 Five men march to the pole and they say they've conquered it, but they haven't. 323 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,720 It will conquer them. 324 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,720 You'll never go back, will you? 325 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:09,720 No. 326 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,720 I didn't want you to go, remember? 327 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,720 I was afraid you wouldn't come back. Do you remember when I said that? 328 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,720 Yes, I remember. And I laughed at you, didn't I? 329 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:20,720 I was such a coward. 330 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:25,720 I laughed and told you that I would conquer it just for you. 331 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,720 That I would name a glacier for you. 332 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,720 And I asked you how a woman should act when a glacier is named after her. 333 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:36,720 Well, I didn't name a glacier for you, but I thought of you Kate. 334 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,720 I thought and dreamed of you so often. 335 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,720 It's important that you know that. 336 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,720 It's important that you know that. 337 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,720 I think of you constantly. 338 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,720 You and our son. 339 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,720 He must be active. 340 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,720 He must be strong. 341 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,720 And you must protect him and he must protect you. 342 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:58,720 Stop. 343 00:23:58,720 --> 00:23:59,720 Kate, I love you. 344 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:00,720 If this... 345 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:01,720 Stop! 346 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,720 Why are you... Yes, yes, yes, for hours. 347 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,720 Wilson is dead. 348 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,720 Ah, Wilson. 349 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,720 Ah, Wilson is dead. 350 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:25,720 Bower. Bower. Bower. 351 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,720 March 29. 352 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:38,720 Since the 21st, Bower and I, Sir Riley Wilson, have had a continuous gale and blizzard from west to west and to the southwest. 353 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:44,720 We had fuel to make two cups of tea a piece and bare food for two days on the 20th. 354 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:50,720 Every day we've been ready to start for the dogstedge camp 11 miles away. 355 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:56,720 But outside the door of the tent it remains a scene of whirling drift. 356 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,720 I do not think we can hope for any better things now. 357 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,720 We shall stick it out to the end. 358 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,720 But we are getting weaker, of course. 359 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,720 And the end cannot be far. 360 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,720 It seems a pity. 361 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,720 But I do not think I can write much more. 362 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:22,720 This rough journal and our dead bodies must tell the story. 363 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,720 And dying we are. 364 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:54,720 Bower. Bower. 365 00:25:54,720 --> 00:26:07,720 The following year an expedition formed by Captain Scott's comrades at the main depot at Cape Armitage set out and found his body, along with that of Bower's and Wilson's. 366 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,720 Search was carried on for oats and Evans, but they were never found. 367 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:20,720 A great cairn was built at the site of Scott's final camp, a trivial monument to the courage of five men, 368 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:31,720 especially to the complete devotion to duty of Robert Falcon Scott, who until his dying breath continued to keep a record of the fatal journey. 369 00:26:50,720 --> 00:27:00,720 Suspense. 370 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:07,720 A true story presented by Auto Light. 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