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The Worst Journey in the World
When Scott's team arrived in Antarctica, they set up a base camp to wait out the winter. But three men—Cherry-Garrard, Henry Bowers, and a scientist Dr. Edward Wilson—ventured out into the cold, dark Antarctic winter on a grueling expedition. Their mission was to bring back eggs of the emperor penguin.
Dr. Wilson had traveled to Antarctica before and discovered the first-known colony of these large penguins. He was determined to return to the colony and collect their eggs for scientific study. But the journey had to take place during the winter, which is when the female emperor penguin lays her single egg. During the five-week trip, the men endured howling blizzards, frostbite, never-ending darkness, and snow-blindness. But they survived and returned with the eggs.
Why did these men risk their lives for bird eggs? Dr. Wilson was convinced that the emperor penguin was the most primitive of living birds. He wanted to examine their eggs to study his theory that birds and reptiles were related.
