Blizzard: Race to the Pole, by Jasper Rees
BBC Books, Accompanies the BBC and History Channel Television Series

In the spring of 2005 John Huston joined an a Norwegian team of explorers for an unprecedented expedition project, a re-race of the 1911 race for the South Pole between Norwegian Roald Amundsen and Briton Robert Falcon Scott. The project resulted in a multi-episode television series, shown on the BBC in the United Kingdom and The History Channel in the U.S., and an accompanying book by Jasper Rees.

Book summary from Amazon.com: At the beginning of the last century, reaching the South Pole was the greatest terrestrial journey left to man. By the spring of 1912, the race was over: Robert Falcon Scott was dead and Roald Amundsen, the victor, was on his way home. Ever since, a debate has raged over whether Scott was an arrogant incompetent or whether he was the victim of bad luck. This book attempts to answer the question by re-running the race. Two teams, among the world's greatest adventurers, will be equipped entirely in the style of the original expeditions. The difference will be that both teams will start at the same time and from points within ten kilometers of each other. Now, for the first time, it will be possible to see whether it was luck or judgment that led Amundsen to victory and Scott to his death.

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John Huston in The Race to the Pole