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Apsley Cherry‐Garrard went with Captain Robert Scott to the South Pole. Scott had gone there before on the Discovery expedition of 1901‐1904, and returned on the Terra Nova in 1910. Cherry‐Garrard was one of the men to discover the tent containing the frozen bodies of Scott, Edward Wilson, and Birdie Bowers. Oates had famously left them days before saying that he was going outside and would be some time. Wilson and Bowers had been Cherry‐Garrard’s companions on The Worst Journey in the World, the unique account, published by Cherry‐Garrard in 1922 (and with a new postscript again in 1951),...
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