Antarctic hero Scott “died because of horse snow shoes blunder”,
Robert Falcon Scott has fascinated people as a man and as a doomed hero for nearly 100 years, since he and his men died on their return trip from the South Pole (where they found themselves preceded by Norwegian Roald Amundsen, and so didn’t even have the satisfaction of having been first to the pole). This article says that another man’s error cost those men their lives. Of course, it might equally be said that their losing their lives in that particular way gained them immortality.
Robert Falcon Scott
Scott needed horse snowshoes in Antarctic
Antarctic hero Scott “died because of horse snow shoes blunder”, according to the magazine British Horse.
It says Captain Robert Scott and his team would not have died on their return journey from the South Pole in 1912 if they had used horse snowshoes available to them.
