Looking down from Mount Wise (2)

The pictures in yesterday's post where shot from the spot where one of Plymouth's most famous sons looks down across the River Tamar.

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Naval Officer and Antarctic Explorer (1868 - 1912), died with his four companions as they struggled back from the race to be the first to reach the South Pole, a race in which they had been beaten by Raold Amundsen and his Norwegian team.

The news of his death turned Scott into an iconic British hero 

and statues were erected to him around the country, not only here in his own home town.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

From the poem Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson