More than 100 years after two groups of men raced each other to
be the first to reach the South Pole, modern-day explorers have
rediscovered what appears to be one of their camp sites on the
slopes of the world's southernmost volcano. Norwegian Roald
Amundsen and Englishman Robert Falcon Scott were the explorers
who led teams of their countrymen on grueling journeys across
the frigid continent in an effort to be the first to go where no
man had gone before. Amundsen won the race, reaching the pole on
Dec. 14, 1911. Scott also made it there, on Jan. 17, 1912, but
perished with the remainder of his crew on the arduous trek back
to the edge of the continent. Scott and his team camped on the
slopes of Mount Erebus, the southernmost volcano, during their
journey. The spot was known as "the highest camp," according to
a National Science Foundation release. Clive Oppenheimer, a
volcanologist at Cambridge University in England and working at
Erebus as part of an NSF team, found what he thinks is the same
camp site us