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TODAY IN ADVENTURE |
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Race To the Bottom: Did you know? |
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On January 17th (that's today!), 1912, the Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrived at the South Pole shocked to discover that his party was not the first to stand there. Roald Amundsen had reached the pole just weeks before Scott’s expedition. Staring blankly at the Norwegian flag flapping in the wind, Scott stated, "Great God! This is an awful place," realizing he was on the losing end of one of the greatest adventure races of the early nineteenth century. |
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