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Some Very Gallant Gentlemen: The Irony of Fate (6x11)

: 19, 1971

Exactly 60 years ago tonight Captain Scott took his last painful steps across Antarctica. It was the end of an epic journey which has stirred hearts ever since. Scott and four others had planted the Union Jack on the South Pole. But they were to pay for it with their lives. What did go wrong? Some new questions are asked and some fresh answers uncovered in this filmed investigation into the fate of Scott's last expedition.