Could Scott have survived with today's physiological knowledge? Lewis George Halsey, Mike Adrian Stroud  Current Biology  Volume 21, Issue 12, Pages R457-R461 (June 2011) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.04.015 Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Captain Scott, 1911. Photograph by Herbert Ponting. Reproduced with permission of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Current Biology 2011 21, R457-R461DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2011.04.015) Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 Scott's polar party near the South Pole, 1912. Photograph by Henry Bowers. Reproduced with permission of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Current Biology 2011 21, R457-R461DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2011.04.015) Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 3 Scott's polar party at the South Pole, 1912. Photograph by Henry Bowers. Reproduced with permission of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Current Biology 2011 21, R457-R461DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2011.04.015) Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 4 The route to the South Pole. The route taken by Scott and his men during their journey to the South Pole from Ross Island, which ended in their deaths during the return leg as they retraced their steps. Due to the persistent presence of the Ross ice shelf it is possible to walk from Ross Island to the Antarctic land mass. Current Biology 2011 21, R457-R461DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2011.04.015) Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions