The return journey was one of the worst in the history of the _______. The men were  soon exhausted and were running out of food. The weather conditions were terrible. Scott started to _______ their hopeless situation.

“…we are very ______ but what each man feels in his heart I can only guess. Putting on our shoes in the morning is getting slower and slower.” 

   _______, on their way back they found time to look for tocks. They carried 20 kilos of rocks all the way with them. Later, these rocks _____ that at one time in the distant past the Antarctic was covered by ______.

   Then disaster  soon came. Edgar Evans had a terrible disease and died after a  bad ______. The next to go was Captain Oates, _______ was having difficulty walking. Scott recorded his death.

“ Scott reaches the Pole, but with _____ to celebrate.”

“ He said, ‘I am just going _____ and I may be some time.’ We knew that poor Oates was walking to his death, but _____ we tried to stop him, we knew that it was the act of a brave man and an English gentleman. We all hope to _____ the end with a similar spirit, and _______ the end is not far.”

Scott and two of his team members  carried on and got ______ eleven miles of one of their food _____. But then a terrible storm started and they could not leave their tent. Scott ______ some of his last hours ______. He wrote a letter full of sadness to his wife Kathleen:

“ I could tell you lots and lots about this journey. What stories you would have for the boy… But what a ______ to pay.

Scott’s diary also told the story of their end:

We are getting weaker and weaker and the end can’t be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.”

The news of Scott’s death ______ the world. He had failed to win the race to the Pole, but the extraordinary courage ______ by Captain Scott and his men made them into heroes.