The Crew

Forty-eight men started the journey south, each one hand-picked by Scott. Scientists apart, the complement was a mixture of merchant and naval seamen, a decision Scott came to regret as tensions broke out between the codes. As well as Scott two other senior crew members stand out in particular, Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson. Despite being invalided home, Shackleton’s ﬁrst visit to the Antarctic left him obsessed with this bleak desert of ice. He was to return to the Antarctic three times including the ill-fated Endurance expedition which earned him a place in Polar history. Wilson, the expedition’s zoologist, was to die with Scott on the fateful journey to the pole in 1912.