Emily Stone is a Chicago-based writer who spent two summers in Antarctica. Fungus growing on pine and birch wafers. Layne Kennedy Explorer Robert Scott's hut at Cape Evans is one of three ...

Scott agreed to let him try. Very soon after Wilson and his companions departed their cozy hut for Cape Crozier, it became obvious that hauling sledges through the perpetual Antarctic night was ...

Tears welled in Ngawai Clendon's eyes when she and a group of young Antarctic adventurers finally returned a special artefact to Scott's Discovery Hut, only for one to freeze rolling down her cheek.

We are now ready to face the harsh environment of Antarctica early in 2012 and hopefully we will live up to Scott's epic legacy.” The team has now completed all their training. The final event ...

An isolated hut in Antarctica favoured by explorer Sir Edmund ... hut during field training and as a retreat from New Zealand's Scott Base. In May 2004 it survived 12 hours of over 160kph winds ...

which appointed him to command the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. The expedition - which included Ernest Shackleton - reached further south than anyone before them and Scott returned ...