- Robert Falcon Scott: It is a terrible disappointment and I am very sorry for my loyal companions... Great God! this is an awful place.
- Herbert G. Ponting: Imagine now the isolated 'Polar Party' in their tent at the end of each day's striving! Petty Officer Evans is the cook for the day, and on his left are Lieut. Bowers, Dr. Wilson and Captain Scott.
- Herbert G. Ponting: Upward and onward, the determined explorers doggedly toiled over that stupendous cataract of ice which, stretching from the Great Ice Barrier to the Polar Plateau, rises 8,000 feet in 120 miles.
- Robert Falcon Scott: Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.