Science: Methodical Journey

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The weather got worse, so the last 70 miles was made in a 24-hour dash. At last, with most of the gasoline gone, Sir Edmund spied the U.S. buildings on the white plateau. This was no time, he knew, for precipitate action. He remembered his expedition's official correspondent at Scott Station, and also the fact that reporters of the London Daily Mail (see PRESS) and U.S. wire services were waiting for him at the Pole. So the New Zealanders quietly made camp. Four of them, including Sir Edmund, calmly went to sleep. The inhabitants of the base were asleep too. Not until the next morning, after his radio man had sent the news of the expedition to the proper press contact, did the methodical Sir Edmund chug the last two miles to the base and announce himself to the Americans.