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Wednesday <strong>December</strong> <strong>19</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Horror of discovering Scott’s body<br />
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MORE HAS been revealed about<br />
an Antarctic expedition which<br />
ended in Lyttelton in February<br />
<strong>19</strong>13.<br />
Canterbury Museum has<br />
acquired two diaries written by<br />
Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s<br />
Norwegian skiing expert,<br />
Tryggve Gran.<br />
One diary, written in Norwegian,<br />
is an account of the<br />
expedition from November 7,<br />
<strong>19</strong>11 to February 25, <strong>19</strong>12.<br />
The other, in Gran’s imperfect<br />
English, covers the period until<br />
the expedition returned to<br />
Lyttelton, in February <strong>19</strong>13.<br />
In the second diary, Gran describes<br />
his horror at finding the<br />
frozen bodies of Scott, Edward<br />
Wilson and Henry “Birdie” Bowers<br />
on November 12, <strong>19</strong>12, more<br />
than seven months after they<br />
died returning from the South<br />
Pole.<br />
“I will never forget it so long I<br />
live, a horrible nightmare could<br />
not have shown more horror than<br />
this,” Gran wrote.<br />
“The frost had made the skin<br />
yellow and transparent and I’ve<br />
never seen anything worse in my<br />
life. The Owner (the men’s name<br />
for Scott) seems to have struggled<br />
hard in the moment of death,<br />
while the two others seem to have<br />
gone off in a kind of sleep,” he<br />
wrote.<br />
HISTORY: Canterbury Museum has acquired two diaries written by Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Norwegian skiing expert<br />
Tryggve Gran which reveal his horror at finding Scott’s body.<br />
Scott’s group had set out in<br />
October <strong>19</strong>11 to become the first<br />
people to reach the South Pole.<br />
They made it to the pole on<br />
January 17, <strong>19</strong>12, but discovered<br />
the Norwegian explorer Roald<br />
Amundsen had beaten them<br />
there by 34 days.<br />
On their return journey they<br />
were plagued by severe weather,<br />
which slowed their progress and<br />
caused their food and fuel to run<br />
out.<br />
Gran, who Scott had employed<br />
to teach the other expedition<br />
members to ski, was one of a<br />
group of 11 who set out to find<br />
the party including Scott, after<br />
they failed to return from their<br />
journey to the pole.<br />
The last entry in Scott’s own<br />
journal, which Gran read after<br />
discovering the bodies, is dated<br />
March 29, <strong>19</strong>12.<br />
The museum plans to scan and<br />
digitise the English-language<br />
diary early next year, when the<br />
diaries arrive from London<br />
where they were purchased.<br />
The digital version will be<br />
available on the museum’s<br />
website.<br />
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