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The return journey was one of the worst in the history of the _______. The men were soon exhausted and were running out of food. The weather conditions were terrible. Scott started to _______ their hopeless situation.
“…we are very ______ but what each man feels in his heart I can only guess. Putting on our shoes in the morning is getting slower and slower.”
_______, on their way back they found time to look for tocks. They carried 20 kilos of rocks all the way with them. Later, these rocks _____ that at one time in the distant past the Antarctic was covered by ______.
Then disaster soon came. Edgar Evans had a terrible disease and died after a bad ______. The next to go was Captain Oates, _______ was having difficulty walking. Scott recorded his death.
“ Scott reaches the Pole, but with _____ to celebrate.”
“ He said, ‘I am just going _____ and I may be some time.’ We knew that poor Oates was walking to his death, but _____ we tried to stop him, we knew that it was the act of a brave man and an English gentleman. We all hope to _____ the end with a similar spirit, and _______ the end is not far.”
Scott and two of his team members carried on and got ______ eleven miles of one of their food _____. But then a terrible storm started and they could not leave their tent. Scott ______ some of his last hours ______. He wrote a letter full of sadness to his wife Kathleen:
“ I could tell you lots and lots about this journey. What stories you would have for the boy… But what a ______ to pay.
Scott’s diary also told the story of their end:
We are getting weaker and weaker and the end can’t be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.”
The news of Scott’s death ______ the world. He had failed to win the race to the Pole, but the extraordinary courage ______ by Captain Scott and his men made them into heroes.
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