Did Robert Falcon Scott really die in a ten-day blizzard?
As you might know, Robert Falcon Scott’s race to the South Pole was one of exploration’s biggest screw-ups. Not only did his team fail to claim the Pole for the British; they were pinned down by a ten-day blizzard on the way back and froze to death. Crappy luck doesn’t come much crappier than that.
Unless, that is, there was no blizzard. In 2001, science writer Susan Solomon caused a stir by claiming the ten-day storm was impossible. See, Antarctic weather follows some pretty neat patterns: when cold air builds up above the continent, it creates a sort of ‘reservoir’ that overflows, causing storms. When this ‘reservoir’ is empty, the storms let up. In decades of measurements this has never taken ten days.
Even more damning, any super-storm that hit Scott should have by rights continued on to the coast. Except another team was taking measurements down there and recorded no indications of a storm raging inland.
So what really happened?
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