Cardiff to Cape Evans
100 years ago today Captain Scott’s expedition was building the hut for their winter quarters and unloading stores from the Terra Nova.
They’d had a terrible journey out sinc leaving New Zealand, nearly sinking during a heavy storm which almost overwhelmed their overladen ship. The pumps were blocked with coal dust and oil and they had to bale out with buckets. The ponies suffered terribly and some died due to the conditions. Finally they reached the pack but then spent weeks trying to find a way through it using up too much of their precious coal reserves. When they managed to break through to the Antarctic continent they found they could not set up camp at Cape Crozier as planned and had to move on to cape Evans (as they christened it) which was not ideally situated as it meant they would have to rely on a frozen bay some of the time to be able to move about.
Well this is where they are ‘now’.
