Scott's travels in books and ice

I have commented somewhere - possibly Facebook - on the excellent book "The Worst Journey in the World" by Appsley Cherry-Garrard.  It is about the expedition by Robert Falcon Scott to the Antarctic.  I believe it proves the title to be largely correct, and is well deserved of the wide praise it has received.

I am currently reading "Great Expeditions 50 journeys that have changed the World".  This includes coverage of Scott's expedition, and I shall return to that below.

The most unusual thing about this book is that it has no author!  The text was created by Mark Steward but his name is far from dominant on the cover.  The most prominent name is Levison Wood who wrote the foreword.  He has done an expedition - walking the length of the Nile - but it isn't covered in the book.  In the foreword he refers to the perils of expeditions including a reference to his own trip (see here for detail).  It is very interesting and if I spot a copy at the right price (Lifeline seems a possibility) I shall grab it.

Where these come together is a comment in the article about Scott's expedition.  It concludes with describing (briefly) the bodies of Scott and his companions and then goes on:
"Today, after a century of snowstorms, the cairn,tent and cross now lie under 23 m (75 ft) of ice.  They have become part of the ice shelf and have already moved 48 km (30 miles) from where they died. In 300 years or so the explorers will once again reach the ocean, before taking to the water and drifting away inside an iceberg."

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