Abbreviations refer to the works cited in the Bibliography. Material cited here in italics is a direct quote; information based on works cited is roman.
| vii | “We are not going forward like a lot”: HRB 1911; Coldest 290–292 |
| 50 | “Scott’s team had to hike seven hundred”: Worst 327 |
| 81–82 | “In November 1910,” “the vessel Terra Nova,” “carried an international,” and “Scott kept a detailed”: SLE back cover |
| 90 | “Scott’s ponies had gotten”: Worst 150 |
| 91 | “Captain Scott used ponies”: Worst 565; SLE 4–5, 395 |
| 100–01 | “the Scott expedition boasted”: SLE xx; Coldest ix, 54; Cherry 335 |
| 101 | “the Ross Ice Shelf: Coldest map 2,15; SLE 15 |
| 101 | “Scott began his ascent”: Coldest 184 |
| 152 | “Five men had continued”: SLE Foreword xiii, xvii, 384, 430 |
| 152 | “Captain Scott started writing”: SLE 432 |
| 152–53 | “We had fuel to make” and “For God’s sake look”: SLE 432 |
| 157 | “But this I know”: Worst 278 |
| 158 | “Amongst ourselves we are”: SLE 424 |
| 158 | “We are in a very tight”: SLE 425 |
| 158 | “Had we lived, I should”: SLE 442 |
| 158 | “For God’s sake look”: SLE 432 |
| 198 | “As far as the eye”: Worst 143–144 |
| 200 | “Killer whales … were cruising”: Coldest 98; Worst 158 |
| 220 | “on the Scott expedition, Birdie Bowers”: Coldest 56; SLE 265 |
| 222 | “He slept through the night”: SLE 430 |
| 223 | “Scott’s men had described”: Worst 247 |
| 237 | “The plan was for them to man-haul”: Coldest 128; Worst 367 |
| 238 | “… Proceeding Antarctic”: Cherry 75 |
| 239 | “Great God! This is an awful”: SLE 396; Coldest 217 |
| 239 | “Captain Scott … has taken”: HRB 1912; Coldest 219 |
| 239–40 | “We had four courses” and the following five extracts: SLE 378–379 |
| 242 | “Very hungry always, our allowance”: Coldest 30; Wilson 1, 221 |
| 250 | “Antarctica was one of the largest”: Coldest 178 |
| 266 | “An Antarctic blizzard”: Coldest 19 |
| 290 | “One can only say”: Coldest 237; SLE 426 |
| 297 | “Death-traps in your path”: Coldest 33; Evans 25–26 |
| 301 | “The light rippled snow”: Coldest 266 |
| 348 | “In all the years”: Coldest 315 |
| 348 | “My right foot has gone”: SLE 431 |
| 349–50 | “Since the 21st we have”: SLE 432 |
| 350, 351 | “For God’s sake look”: SLE 432 |
| 351 | “reciting the theory an expert”: Coldest 327 |
| 352 | “Cherry-Garrard … drove a dog team”: Coldest 252–254; Worst 496 |
| 352 | “Cherry-Garrard was a rich man”: Worst xxiv |
| 353 | “His trip to find Scott”: Coldest 252, 253 |
| 353 | “Cherry-Garrard wore glasses”: Worst 431 |
| 372 | “If the frostbite is”: Coldest 148, Debenham 31 |
| 372 | “the hardest traveller that ever”: Coldest 148–149; SLE 265 |
| 376 | “I would have trusted Birdie”: Coldest 149; GCS |
| 377 | “I watched my companions’ faces”: Cherry 129 |
| 386 | “There was a grace about”: Worst 302 406 “These days are with one”: Coldest 70, Wilson 2 |
| 413 | “Survival is no child’s game”: HRB 1911; Coldest 291 |