David B. Williams uses the centennial of Robert F. Scott’s final journal entry to explain what is happening to the bodies of Scott and his team who froze to death near the South Pole in 1912. They are in a tent in a snow cairn that is slowly traveling toward the Southern Ocean. For more about cairns, watch for a book this fall from Williams, a NSWA board member.
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