In the winter of 1911, two teams of explorers raced across the frozen wastes of Antarctica to become the first humans to reach the South Pole. Robert Falcon Scott led the British team; Roald Amundsen led the Norwegians. Facing blizzards, starvation, and temperatures of minus forty degrees, both teams pushed onward. Amundsen arrived first, but Scott's exhausted men discovered the Norwegian flag already planted at the Pole. On their desperate return journey, one by one, Scott and his four companions perished in the ice. Based on true events, this moving story celebrates human courage while revealing nature's terrifying, indifferent power.
