20 mile march | Weaver & Loom [E088]

It was the summer of 1910. Virtually the entire world had been explored, and in the minds of many, only one frontier remained—the South Pole. Thousands of miles away from civilization, Antarctica remained one of the last places untouched by the modern world.

Robert Scott from England and Roald Amundsen from Norway led two separate expeditions, racing each other to reach the bottom of the world for land and country. Both men had very different styles of leadership.

One last major difference that set Scott and Amundsen apart was their daily schedule. Scott and his men travelled as much each day as the weather and their strength allowed. When the weather permitted it, some days they trekked for up to nine hours straight. During inclement weather, they didn’t leave their tents at all.

Amundsen, on the other hand, decided they would travel one-quarter of a degree of latitude every day—which is fifteen nautical miles or around twenty miles a day. Hiking twenty miles a day across Antarctica is hard but realistic. Through blizzards or sunshine, they marched twenty miles each day, no more and no less. On average, they spent five to six hours on their feet each day and up to sixteen hours resting in their tents.

Listen to the episode to discover who won this epic race, and the price the loser paid...

 

 

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