Robert Falcon Scott

In 1911, Englishman Robert Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen race to become the first person to reach the South Pole. One man would win; the other died trying. Scott, a captain in the British navy, took four compatriots with him, along with skis, food, water and a team of supply ponies.

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, RN was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913.

“Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.”

“I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.”

“But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.”

His parents were John Edward Scott and Hannah Scott . His child was named Peter Markham Scott . Robert had a wife named Kathleen Bruce but when she married Robert her name changed to Kathleen Scott .