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In the winter of 191 I, there was the race to be the first country to reach

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the South Pole. Captain Scott, a famous explorer from the Great Britain,

Great Britain

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led the British team and Roald Amundsen led a Norwegian one.

the Norwegian

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Scott's team took the horses, motor vehicles and a few dogs, but

horses

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Amundsen was clever and took only the dogs. In November 1911.

dogs

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Scott's group started journey, but there were many problems;

the journey

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the horses died and the motor vehicles stopped working. In an end,

in the end

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Scott and a four men (Wilson, Bowers, Evans and Oates) continued on

four men

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foot. They reached South Pole in January 1912, but they had a

the South Pole

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terrible shock when they arrived. Amundsen had arrived the five weeks

five weeks

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earlier and they had lost a race. Scott's men were extremely tired

the race

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and disappointed but they still needed to walk back 800 miles to coast.

the coast

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Weather got worse and worse and all the men became ill. First Evans

the weather

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died at the night and soon after so did Oates.The other three died in

at night

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their tent only I I miles ( 18 km) from their base.They were found an eight

eight months

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months later. Scott's diary tells a story of their final terrible days.

the story

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