Secrets of the Dead Season 3 Episode 5 - Tragedy at the Pole

Airdate: 2003-Jan-15

Episode summary:

In March 1912, on their return trip from the South Pole, Captain Robert F. Scott and his team froze to death in Antarctica just 11 miles from a depot of food and heating oil. Scott's fatal journey has become the stuff of legend, and some have labeled him an incompetent leader whose mistakes cost him and his team their lives. But are the criticisms fair, or has history judged him too harshly?

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