Scott Polar Research Institute Museum.

"It was a most appalling position. I knew that Peary had once come through a blizzard lying in the open in his bag in the summer. I had no idea that human beings could do so in winter in the state in which we were already. I wondered whether it was really worth trying to keep warm. I confess that I considered that we were now come to the end. If we got out of the blizzard and had, as we decided, to try and get back by digging ourselves into the snow for the night, I meant to ask Bill to let us have enough morphia to deaden the pain when, as I think still it must have come, the cold became too much to live." Extract from "Scott's last expedition" (Open Library)

Visit the museum and learn more about the UK's polar heritage through museum displays, highlighting the extensive polar collections of artefacts, artwork, historic photographs and archival documents. The collections also include last letters of Captain R.F. Scott and his companions the four expedition diaries of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

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