The hut that Scott's party stays in over the winter months before they push off for the Pole plays an important part of the movie. The real structure still stands today down there and is a tourist attraction for those few who make the journey.
The cold, dry air has preserved almost perfectly the interior items that remain: their bunk beds, papers, canned goods and equipment.
It's as if Scott's little world has been caught in a time machine, brought forward to the present day.
Yes that's quite true. The meat is still edible because there is no bacteria in the Antarctic.
shareIn a short piece in The New York Times travel section on Sunday, a writer described various famous places that are endangered by climate change. One of them is Scott's Hut. It is being inundated by huge and unprecedented snowdrifts, weakening the structure.
A pity, if it were to collapse.
CmdrCody
Dear Cmdr.
A very great pity indeed. There are a great many places that deserve to be inundated -- and people too, for that matter, who have ignored the climate change -- before this monument to a great man and his companions.
Yours,
TGOC
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>I wonder if the absence of bacteria had anything to do with the lack of healing of Taff's cut on his finger.
The lack of healing was almost certainly caused by Vitamin C deficiency (near scurvy) suffered by everyone on the polar parties. Something similar may have affected Oates' leg later (still suffering from an old war wound).
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