Amundsen vs Scott: should the pole be won by dogs or by grit?

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ROALD AMUNDSEN vs SCOTT go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

ROALD AMUNDSEN

I studied the Eskimo, I trusted the dog, and I planted my flag five weeks before you arrived.

SCOTT

You raced; I explored. My men hauled sledges by their own honor and returned with science, not just a footprint.

ROALD AMUNDSEN

Honor did not feed your ponies in the snow, Robert. The pole rewards the prepared, not the picturesque.

SCOTT

Yet the world remembers my last frozen letters longer than your triumph — for a nation forgives a hero who dies trying.

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