article_snippet: Robert Falcon Scott's entire party died on the return journey from the South Pole.
article_snippet: For many years after Robert Falcon Scott death, Robert Falcon Scott's status as tragic hero was unchallenged, and few questions were asked about the causes of the disaster which overcame Scott's entire party.
article_snippet: The degree of Robert Falcon Scott's personal culpability remains a matter of controversy among commentator, but it is thought that exhaustion, extreme cold and starvation definitely led to the men's demise.
article_snippet: Cape Evans died on February 17, 1912 and a flagging Oates famously died on March 16 after walking out of the tent into a blizzard to give the remaining three a chance of survival.
article_snippet: Scott, Wilson and Bowers died in the tent on or about March 29.
highlights_snippet: Trek ended with deaths of Scott and the party of Edward Wilson, Lawrence Oates, Edgar Evans and Henry Bowers .
  