Enough !
What do you do when making plans to go on an Antarctic expedition.. Leading men whose life you insist, with discipline, are counting on you.. ???
That the best case senario of sunny days and warm temps will prevail? NO!
That the most normal weather will prevail. At the very least you'll plan.
That the worst weather will kill... *beep* !!!!
His recklessness with other peoples is inexcusible.
Seems to me as per Peter Principle, he "rose to his level of incompetentcy".
Two: That it WASN'T A race to the Pole.
The hell it wasn't.... Some may have forgotten your history.. but times where still tough if you weren't part of the privilege/wealty class.. Kids working in factories, no social services,. etc.. You had to do 'something' to make your mark on the world.
Both Aumundson & Scott still hadn't(at least in there minds) One perhaps more than the other.. Whoever got to the pole first would reap the rewards, prestige.
Hell if it wasn't a race. OF COURSE IT WAS A RACE.
So. CASE CLOSE.
As Bugs use to say 'What a bunch of ma-roons'
Have a nice day