February 1913

Amundsen

Amundsen could not bring himself to write a letter of condolence to the RGS, and got Leon to do it for him. "Scott," Leon wrote, "has shown us how to die." [1]

Helmer Hanssen, though, wrote some years later, "What shall one say of Scott and his companions who were their own sledge dogs?... I don't think anyone will ever copy him." [2]


Notes:

[1] Leon Amundsen, letter to Scott Keltie, [date not given], quoted by Roland Huntford in Scott and Amundsen (New York : Putnam, 1980, c1979), p.562.
[2] Helmer Hanssen, Gjennem Isbaksen, p.100, quoted by Roland Huntford in Scott and Amundsen (New York : Putnam, 1980, c1979), p.563.