Why did Zweig call Scott a great tragedy?

Scott and others finally reached the South Pole after difficulties and obstacles, and achieved their goal. It should have been successful, but sadly, they were not the first, and they lost the original meaning of the action. Especially when I am depressed and go home, despair hangs over the whole collective, which is really a tragedy.

Scott and others' will and courage to overcome difficulties, their willingness to sacrifice personal spirit for the collective, their acceptance of the scientific spirit of failure, their mind to bear the humiliation of failure and testify for the winner, their attitude towards life of loving their relatives in the motherland, and their spirit of exploration for collective honor are far greater than failure, which is a "great" embodiment except "tragedy".

This is also the purpose of the author to write this article. The greatness shown by Scott and others in the tragedy is the pride of human spirit and the greatness of events.

Proof of Scott's decision-making mistake

The New York Times's articles about Solomon's research findings triggered letters from readers, and the newspaper later published several of them. The letter pointed out that Amundsen and his teammates faced the same cold weather, and their success was only due to better preparation, thus becoming the first person to land on the Antarctic continent.

Their trip to the South Pole is called "Great Tragedy", and their spirit is great. They fully demonstrated the spirit of a hero who dared to devote himself to mankind, their persistence in their cause and their great collectivism.

95 years ago, British Navy Colonel robert Falcon scott led an expedition to challenge the South Pole. Regrettably, he failed to realize his ambition of reaching the South Pole first, and was wiped out by hunger and cold on his way back. 95 years later, Cambridge University published the letter Scott wrote to his family before his death for the first time in memory of the British explorer.