Captain Robert Falcon Scott commanded two expeditions to Antarctica, the first one in 1901-1904. He left for his second in 1910 with the goal of reaching and studying the South Pole. When he and what remained of his team got there in January 1912, they learned that they had been beaten there by about one month, by Roald Amundsen.
The Scott expedition never made it back to England. Scott's last diary entry reads, "Every day we have been ready to start for our depot 11 miles away but outside the door of the tent it remains a scene of whirling drift. . . . We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more."
Their hut has sat practically untouched all these years, still housing the men's unused supplies (slideshow): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13079351
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