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On reaching the South Pole on 17 January 1912, Scott and his party found a tent left by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen who had beaten them to the Pole by thirty-three days. Inside the tent, Amundsen had left two letters, one for the King of Norway and the other for Scott, in case he should not make it back home.
The return from the Pole became difficult for Scott's party. The men died with only a small amount of food and fuel remaining and an unexpected blizzard confining them to their tent, just 18 km from a large supply camp which might have saved them.
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