Even so, I think we chose our role model well. No one could ever fault Scott for his extraordinary courage. His ideas were big; it was just his brain that was small. Even in 1910, when he embarked on his final doomed expedition to the South Pole, it was established practice to use huskies to transport equipment. Scott therefore chose to use horses, which all died. He was history’s greatest runner-up, a leader of men who, tragically, led them to their death. Reading his journals in the library, I was greatly moved by the fearless rigidity of his upper lip, a condition that the weather in the
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