HORSES FOR COURSES
SCOTT REJECTS DOGS AND CAUSES ANTARCTIC ANNIHILATION
Explorer Robert Falcon Scott was determined to be first to the South Pole. He made it on 17 January 1912 – but 33 days after Roald Amundsen – and none of his team made it back alive. Scott’s most devastating mistake was to pick ponies over dogs, believing they would be best for transporting supplies and as a fresh source of meat. Unfortunately, many of the ponies died of exhaustion or sank in the deep snow. Some drifted off on an ice flow where they were circled by killer whales, spooking them until they toppled into the water. Amundsen and his sledge dogs won the race.