Captain Robert Scott and his team would not have died on their return journey from the South Pole in 1912 if they had used the horse snowshoes available to them, reveals an exclusive article in The British Horse Society’s flagship magazine British Horse.
Captain Scott left the snowshoes, which research indicates would have made his expedition’s progress far faster, at base camp on the advice of his horse expert Captain Lawrence Oates.
Captain Oates – who famously declared “I am just going outside and could be some time” when bravely sacrificing his life in the hope his companions might live – considered snowshoes an “unmitigated nuisance” according to the article, penned by American equestrian journalist Tom Moates and based on the findings of the Long Riders’ Guild Academic Foundation (LRGAF).
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