[LS]

Talk about a guy who made every mistake in the book. He used horses instead of dogs, when for horses you had to bring their own food with you, and could not feed a dead horse to other horses. He survived in spite of his poor planning.

[rohry]

Talk about a guy who made every mistake in the book.

Actually, I you're thinking of Scott and his ill-fated trip. This expedition was later and the goal was to cross the entire Antarctic continent, not go to the South Pole. They had dogs (no horses) and there are some 90 year-old films showing them taking care of them (apparantly they were susceptible to sea-sickness).

Imagine a year and a half living in those conditions with no loss of life!