The most terrible secret of Antarctica is revealed? Expedition to the South Pole - Abnormal Balls Face-Burnt Researchers on the last path.

In 1912, under the leadership of the Captain of the Royal Fleet and the Polar Researcher Robert Scott Robert Falcon Scott) Expedition to Antarctic started. The goal, the South Pole, was achieved on January 17th. However, on the way back, consisting of five people, the TERRANOVA team, suffering from cold, depletion and fatigue, has suffered death. Despite this, they remembered the whole century, although no one after did not dare repeat this route. The site tells the modern version of the Expedition of Captain Scott.

South Pole: Expedition Ben Sanders and Tarka L'Eerpiner

Krasnoye marked Ben's location on 01.12.2013

Man by name Ben Sanders (Ben Sanders) who conquered the North Pole, along with his companion Tarcom L'erpiner Tarka L'Herpiniere) put a very ambitious goal - together using achievements in the field of technology, repeat the route Robert Scott. A completely autonomous campaign with a length of 2865 kilometers on their calculations should be enough for 4 months. On average, these two brave people take 30 km per day. This journey, which for some was only a dream, began on October 25, 2013.

For a more accurate understanding of the conditions in which these 2 people per day are located, we give some facts. The sun shines the clock, which on the one hand allows you to use the solar battery to recharge the electronic devices, on the other hand, it makes a tangible imbalance into the usual phase of the change of day and night. In addition, the air temperature is sometimes lowered to -50 ° C. All this makes tangible adjustments in both the physical condition of people and the ways to maintain it. Each of the participants consumes almost 6,000 calories per day. But even with such intensive nutrition, weight loss is 1 kilogram per week per person. This is a real challenge of brave people, for themselves, and even stories that did not know anything of the only 100 years.

Much has changed in the world in the last century. Information, technological and technical solutions conquered previously unprecedented heights. Satellite phones, portable navigation, Internet access and data collection and data systems - during the time of Robert Scott this was not. Who knows, be it then, maybe they would have managed to survive. Now the technique greatly facilitates the travel of Ben and the car both in direct and figuratively. Each of them pulls the specially designed sleighs with a split weight 200 kilogram. You can try to drag something similar in the Middle Eastern Winter conditions at least a few hundred meters and present what to go with such a burden of 30 kilometers daily in more severe conditions. The total weight of digital equipment is critical and is only 12 kilograms.

All devices were minimized as much as possible and prepared for uninterrupted work in extreme conditions for the efforts of Intel engineers. So, UltraBook Ben weighs only 800 grams. For all the time, each of the devices will be held 110 cycles of frost-defrosting, which will become a serious verification of reliability. In addition to the transfer of scientific data, the technique allows you to remain in touch with the outside world and do not feel lonely. The guys took the favorite films, the series, they lead the online diary and lay out the video in Youtube, telling his native and colleagues about their impressions in real time, that the eyelid times could be only fantastic. While walking on skiing, according to them, rhythmic music helps.

Differences of the Scott Expedition from the modern version:

Truly, a great thing happens before our eyes, which once again confirms the interest of mankind to the uncharted and courage of its individual representatives. According to preliminary forecasts, Ben and Tark back back at the end of February 2014. We wish them a good way and a prosperous return home.

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According to Selezneva Pavel Valentinovich, Representative of the Association of Polyarnikov of Russia, Wiring the Internet network in the North Pole began only in 2009, before that, Russian polar researchers enjoyed the ABC Morse. Thanks to high technologies, we get more accurate weather forecasts. Recently, the northern seaway is becoming increasingly popular, which requires accurate support for the navigation of ships.

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The last photo of the expedition of Robert Scott, the photo of Lieutenant H. R. Bowers, South Pole, January 17, 1912. Lawrence Outs, Henry Bowers, Robert Scott, Edward Wilson, and Edgar Evans (from left to right).

The team of Robert Falcon Scott was the second who achieved the South Pole of the Earth.

Scott was allowed several errors in planning an expedition. The main rate was made on the motorcycle and pony, but in the conditions of cruel cold (and at the heights of more than 2.5 km and significant remoteness from the ocean, the South Policy, especially in the winter season - the record holder at low temperatures) Sanya engines stopped working, and most Pony died even during the maritime transition. In addition, he gave itself to know a competitive effect with the team of Rual Amundsen, so despite the difficulties and failures, the Scott team continued to the expedition.

As a result, the first who reached the Southern Pole was Norwegian Amundsen, traces of which discovered Scott, the whole team of which was in an incredible exhaust when the policy reaches and the disappointment of loss finally deprived people of the forces. All British Pole Team Robert Scott died on the way back, just 17 kilometers from the camp " One ton"In which there was a stock of provisions. Another reason for the failure of the expedition was an abnormally cold year and the strongest multi-day blizzard, not the opportunities weakened to move on.

Robert Falcon Scott died 29 or March 30. Judging by the fact that he was lying in an unlucky sleeping bag and took himself the diaries of both comrades, he was the last breaking up with life. November 12, 1912 by the search group " Terra Novy"Scott's bodies were found and his comrades, an expedition diaries and farewell letters. Their last camp has become a grave, and the lowered tent served as a funeral Savan. The high pyramid of snow was erected above the place, and its top crowned the temporary cross from skis.

Decades of storms and snowy bosenov entered into an ice casing with a pyramid standing at the Ross Glacier, which steadily moves to the same sea. In 2001, a researcher Bentley Charles expressed the opinion that the tent with bodies was buried approximately 23 meters of ice and is located approximately 48 kilometers from the place where the last members of the Scott hike to the southern pole broke up. According to Bentley, approximately after 275 years this place will reach the sea of \u200b\u200bRoss, and perhaps turning into Iceberg, will leave Antarctica forever.

Some rare photos from the expedition:

Ship of dogs and pony, "Terra Nova", 1910

Among the goods in the ship were 3 motor sleds, 162 mutton carcasses, 19 pons, 33 dogs and more than 450 tons of coal - not counting 65 people, from sailors to scientists.

"Ice mustache", Antarctica, 1911

Mustache, inlaid, photographer Herbert Potting, Robert Scott stands on Iceberg near Murdo, Antarctica, in 1911. Known at the time, professional photographer Herbert Potting was part of researchers in the Expedition "Terra Nova" to the South Pole.

"Snow Pony", Antarctica, 1911

Assistant Zoologist Apsley Cherry-Garrard poses with his pony, Michael, October 16, 1911, before the first stage of traveling to the South Pole.

Researchers with "Terra Nova" also witnessed several meteorological events, of which the most impressive are polar radiances.

"Today we had magnificent polar beams - probably the most brilliant of those that I saw"; wrote Scott in May 1911.

Departure of "Terra New", Antarctica, 1913

The next time, people appeared in the South Pole only in 1956.

Last record from the diary of Robert Scott dated March 29, 1912.
Thursday, March 29th. From the 21st, the continuous storm with WSW and SW was rampated. The 20th we had fuel for two cups of tea for each and two days of dry food. Every day we were ready to go - only 11 miles warehouse - but there is no possibility to get out of the tent, it carries and turns the snow. I do not think that we can now hope for something else. Hold up to the end. We are understandable, all weaken, and the end cannot be far away.

It is a pity, of course, but I can hardly write something else.

R. Scott

P.S. For God's sake, take care of our loved ones.

Terra Nova in the parking lot at Cape Evans, at the ice joke, January 1911.

In 1910, the British Antarctic Expedition was launched on Barka Terra Nova, headed by Robert Scott. The main political purpose of the expedition was the achievement of the southern pole. The expedition was divided into two detachments: Scientific - for wintering in Antarctica - and ship. A total of 65 people from more than eight thousand candidates were selected. Scientific detachment included twelve scientists and specialists. Scott decided to use the Trial Treaty: Motor Sani, Manchurian Horses and Riding Dogs. The pioneer of the use of ponies and motor means in Antarctic was Sheklton, who was convinced of full practical usefulness and the other. But Scott trees were extremely negative.

On July 15, 1910, Terra Nova sailed from Cardiff. Robert Scott on board was not: struggling for the financing of the expedition, as well as with bureaucratic obstacles, he joined the team only in South Africa. Bark arrived in Melbourne on October 12, 1910, there was a telegram of Brother Rual Amundsen - Leon: "I have the honor to inform" Fram "is sent by Antarctic. Amundsen. " The message provided on Scott the most painful effect.

On October 16, Terra Nova sailed to New Zealand, Scott remained with his wife in Australia to settle things. He sailed from Melbourne on October 22. In Wellington, he was celebrated on the 27th. By that time, Terra Nova took stocks in Port Chalmers. With civilization, the expedition spread apart on November 29, 1910.

On December 1, Terra Nova fell into the zone of the strongest squall, which led to great destruction on the ship. I had to reset from the deck 10 tons of coal. The ship fell into a drift, however, it turned out that the trumpeted pumps were clogged and not able to cope with the continuously scorched by the vessel. On December 9, the packs of packing ice began to meet, on December 10, the expedition crossed the southern polar circle. To pass the 400 mile strip of packing ice, it took 30 days (in 1901 it took 4 days). There was a lot of coal and the province.

January 1, 1911, the members of the expedition saw land: it was a mountain Sabin in 110 miles from Victoria Earth. Ross Islands Expedition Scott reached January 4, 1911. The place of wintering was called Cape Evans in honor of the commander of the vessel.

2 Cape Evans

The Expedition "Terra Nova" consisted of two parties: North and South. The tasks of the Northern Party included exclusively scientific research, while South - the conquest of the pole.

From the end of January to the beginning of April, the expedition members carried out bookmarks of food warehouses to the pole. February 16, 1911 at 79 ° 29 "Yu. Sh. 150 miles from the Evans Cape was laid in the warehouse of one ton, named equipment left there. April 23rd came a polar night. Zimovka began.

On September 13, 1911, Scott announced his plans to the team: twelve people are sent to the pole, but later four, the others should arrive at the pole - to provide them with support on the way. The polar group had to be two navigators (Scott and UTS), a doctor (Wilson) and an experienced sailor (Edgar Evans).

The pole detachment was divided into three groups. The group on the motorcycles started on October 24 and should have brought three tons of supplies at 80 ° 30 "Yu. Sh. The first sleigh finally failed on November 1, the second - after 87 km from the corner warehouse. After that, people were forced to straighten into the harness themselves and To drag it 241 km to the agreed place, having a load on each of the over 2 centners.

Scott spoke on a pony on November 1, reaching the Corner camp on November 5th. Day transitions had to limit 15 miles so as not to overload a pony. On November 7, Scott caught up with Mirz, who headed the third detachment, walking on dogs. The warehouse of one ton reached November 15, giving a team of a day of rest. On the same day, the Lieutenant Evans team equipped the warehouse 80 ° 30 "Yu. Sh. On a day they passed to seventeen miles.

3 Glacier Birdmore

The first horse had to shoot on November 24. After that, Day and Hooper were sent to the base. In the Scott group until November 28, eight pony remained. On December 4, the expedition reached the "gate" of the Glacier of the Birdmore. On December 5, the strongest blizzard, who lasted four days, and the expedition position was desperate. Travelers were able to move only on December 9, bad weather hit the expedition from the planned schedule for 5-6 days. At the foot of the glacier shot all the horses. The rise at the glacier was reconciled by Sheklton and had a length of 120 miles. Twelve people remaining without heavy toilets were divided into three "silent". The rise was extremely heavy: because of loose snow, it was possible to go through no more than four miles per day. On December 17, a warehouse of the middle of the glacier was arranged. Next, the transitions amounted to 17 miles, but the group was lagging behind the chalton's schedule for five days. On December 20, Atkinson, Wright, Cherry Garrands and Keokhin were sent to the base.

On January 4, the latest auxiliary group of four people should have led, but Scott decided to take a fifth member of the team - Bowers to the pole. Despite the fact that the provisional and equipment were designed for four people, including a place in the tent and the number of skis (without them I had to do anything).

4 achievement of the southern pole

On January 5, the Pole Group reached 88 ° Sh., 120 miles remained to the pole. Transitions Everyone became more complicated: the snow resembled the sand, the sliding was almost absent. On January 15, the last warehouse was laid, 74 miles remained to the pole. By this time, the team members were already very exhausted, and Edgar Evans showed signs of Qingi. In the last jerk to the pole, it was decided to go flat, leaving in stock the supply of the provisionant for 9 days.

On January 17, the British reached the pole 34 days after the Amundsen team. For the "environment" of the Pole, the team went one mile directly and three miles to the right side.

On January 18, Bauers found a tent Amundsen "Pulcheim" two miles from Scott camp. Scott at first believed that the Norwegians were two, but in the tent there were letters to Scott and the Norwegian king, as well as a note with the report of the Norwegian team, from which it turned out that expeditioners were five. The weather has deteriorated sharply: a snow burane, which entered the traces, began, the temperature was -30 ° C.

Scott wrote in his diary: "Our worst or almost worst fears come true. The whole story is on the palm: Norwegians were ahead of us! They first reached the pole. Horrible disappointment! I hurt me for my faithful comrades. "

5 Return. Death

On January 21, a strong blizzard began, only 6 miles were passed. On January 23, Evans freshed the nose and badly damaged his hands. Another intermediate warehouse was achieved only on January 25th. On February 4, Scott and Evans fell into glacial cracks. Scott damaged his shoulder, and Evans, obviously, received a strong brain concussion. He was no longer able to pull Sani, and his strength was enough only to keep up with the rest.

The descent on the glacier continued from February 7 to February 17, and the last three days of the expeditionary are starving: having gone out of the schedule, they could not reach the warehouse. On February 17, Edgar Evans died suddenly. He was buried in the glacier. The base remained 420 miles.

In the camp at the foot of the Birdmor Glacier, expeditionary was changed Sani and went to the future path on February 19. Scott's South Ice Ware has reached on February 24, finding that there is little kerosene: it evaporated from leakage bidons. Day transitions were 13 miles. The temperature at night lowered to -40 ° C.

By March 1, expeditionary reached the "Middle Glacier" warehouse, revealing the catastrophic lack of kerosene: it was not enough until the next warehouse. By that time, only Scott continued to keep a diary and count the time. Day transitions were no more than 1 mile, the expedition participants catastrophically lost their strength. STS received a strong frostbite of both legs, Gangrena began. March 16, UTS, unable to go further, left the tent in the snow buran. No longer saw him. By this time, the expedition was separated from the warehouse of 26 miles.

On March 21, Scott with the remaining member of the expedition was forced to stay at 11 miles from the "one ton" camp. Further promotion has become impossible due to strong burana. March 23, they ended with fuel. By March 29, the situation has not changed, and Scott made his last entry in the diary: "Every day we were going to go to the warehouse, which left 11 miles left, but the blizzard is not the blizzard. I do not think that we can now hope for the best. We will endure to the end, but we are weak, and death, of course, is close. Sorry, but I don't think I can write yet. For God's sake, do not leave our loved ones! "

Scott died the latter: Wilson's bodies and Bowers were neatly tied to sleeping bags, and the commander himself threw off the sleeping bag and revealed the jacket. Under his shoulder, he had a bag with a diary of the members of the expedition.

There were 13 people on the second wintering at Cape Evans, Campbell Group (6 people) was in full insulation on the Earth Victoria. Wintering on the Scott base was extremely painful in a psychological attitude, for everyone understood that a catastrophe occurred. Scientific works, however, continued in full.

The acting commander Atkinson began the search for the remains of the Scott Group on October 29, 1912. On November 10, the search group reached a warehouse of one ton and moved to the south, assuming to go to the Glacier of the Birdmore (Atkinson believed that the misfortune happened on the pass). However, on November 12, they found a tent of Scott, almost listed by the snow.

Atkinson compiled a description of the seen and took the diaries of the members of the expedition and uncompressed photographic plates, which were well preserved for 8 months of the polar night. The bodies did not touch, only removed the backs of the tent, her canopy served Savan died. After that, a snowy pyramid was built over the remains crowned with a temporary cross from skis.

On January 22, 1913, Terra Nova left the barrier of McMordo. On February 10, the expedition returned to the port of Ohamar (New Zealand), from where news from London and New York were sent.

Study of scientists from the University of New South Wales sheds light on the details of the death of the British polar expedition of Robert Scott at the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1912, Scott reached the Southern Pole. His group was lagging behind a similar expedition of the Norwegian Rual Amundsen. As a result, Amundsen became a pioneer, and Scott and his comrades were killed on the way back. For many years, the fate of the Scott Expedition was an example of the heroism of the Conquerors of Antarctic in an unequal struggle with nature. However, reality turned out to be much more severe and prosaic.

• The death of one of the participants of the Scott expedition. Picture of John Dolman
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By the beginning of the twentieth century, there were almost no places left on Earth, wherever the human leg would have come. The colonial race of the leading powers crushed the last white spots on the map of Africa and Asia, with the exception of individual hard-to-reach regions.

After in 1909, the American researcher Robert Piri reached the North Pole, it remained to get to the South. After an impressive expedition, Peeli, about which all the newspapers of the world wrote about the case of conquering the most southern point of the globe, famous polar explorers took.

The national belonging of the first researcher who has reached the Southern Pole was a political issue. The state flag over Antarctica became a symbol of scientific and cultural dominance. The challenge of Peiri accepted the UK, which at that time was a leading world power and unofficially wore the title of "Lady of the Seas".

On September 13, 1909, the captain of the British Royal Fleet Robert Scott announced the plan of the expedition to the southern pole.

Scott had previously participated in Antarctic scientific expeditions, so no one doubted his ambitious project in the success.

On the intention of Scott, the Norwegian Roal Amundsen also recognized, but he did not advertise his plans. The press and the Society thought that Amundsen continues to prepare for the campaign on the North Pole, but the Polar Researcher did not agree to the role of the second plan.

Polar Race

On January 4, 1911, Scott's expedition landed from the terra Nova vessel on Ross Island off the Antarctica coast. The island was on the edge of the shelf glacier, which is the name of another English navigator and researcher - James Clark Ross. It was planned to go to the pole. The British stopped at the wintering, during which the first trial trips to the south were performed.

In late January, the team "Terra Nova", which moved along the coast to the East, made a shocking discovery. Just 300 km from the Scott base, the ship's crew discovered the Amundsen base. It became obvious that with a performance should be hurried, because the Norwegians did not hide their goal to the first to reach the southern pole.

Preparation for the campaign was completed only by the fall of 1911, when the harsh Antarctic Winter ended, which in the southern latitudes falls on the summer months of our calendar. The first stage of the throw to the pole was sending to the south of three groups, which prepared food warehouses for the return expedition. After this work was completed, on January 3, 1912, Scott declared the final part of the detachment that would go to the pole. Those who have not entered this list returned to the place of wintering on the coast.

• Scott team on the southern pole. Robert Scott - in the center
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Captain "Terra New" and a member of one of the auxiliary expeditions Edward Evans wrote so on the moment of separation:

"Then we could not think that we would be the last, who saw them alive that our triple" Hurray "on this gloomy desert plateau would be the last greeting they would hear."

The campaign of Scott and his five comrades lasted two weeks. To the southern pole they came out on January 17, and it is impossible to transfer their disappointment when they saw that the Norwegian flag was waving there. Amundsen detachment was here on December 14, a month before the British, and left them a letter with a request to inform about the success of the expedition, if the Norwegians perished on the way home.

Broken disappointment, cold and fatigue, five conquerors of the southern pole installed the British flag on this place and went on the way back.

• Scott squads grave
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Nobody reached the wintering. All members of Scott Group died on the way.

Judas in Antarctica

For more than 100 years, Robert Scott's campaign was a symbol of knightly dedication. Even losing the "Polar Race", the expedition participants remained until the end of the tasks of the campaign and heroically died in the name of the Great Goal. As the main cause of death is usually called poor preparation of Scott to the campaign: he tried to use ponies, which were unsuitable for the terms of the Antarctic, did not provide for the possibility of a silence in the detachment.

However, the death of his group was not predetermined. Recently it became known that not only extreme temperature and poor training - the death of Scott played a fatal role in the death of Scott's squad - a specific person is to blame for his participants.

In the Academic Journal Polar Record, which is published in Cambridge, published an article of Professor Chris Terni from the University of New South Wales, shedding light on the circumstances of Scott's death and his comrades.

Terenni worked for a long time with documents related to the British expedition, and found that the death of Scott team is the result of negligence or direct sabotage from the captain of the ship "Terra Nova" Edward Evans.

• Lieutenant Edward Evans, 1911
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Evans was part of groups involved in the preparation of food warehouses on the expedition way. From the documents it follows that the warehouses that Evans should have been equipped were empty. As a result, Scott and his people were forced to save the remnants of provisions, starve - and it accelerated their death.

In addition, Terni learned that when Scott sent Evans back to wintering, he gave him a direct order - to send a dog to the dog to meet the detachment from the pole, but Evans ignored him. If the order was performed, Scott, most likely, would remain alive.

This information was known to those who dealt with the death of Scott's death 100 years ago. But the Committee on Investigating the causes of the death of the expedition quickly stopped work, and in public statements on this matter the role of Evans has always been silent. According to Ternni, it was done in order not to destroy the usual legend about the death of Scott, which entered school textbooks.

Evans did not make any responsibility for his inaction, wrote about the Antarctic Expedition of two books and died in 1957, he had reached the title of Admiral.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, 4 expeditions visited the Southern Magnetic Pole: British (1912), Soviet (1962), American (1962) and another Soviet. The first died completely, from the second only two were returned, the third with difficulty returned onlyon one all-terrain one, and their stories immediately classified, as they have sedted information about the last Soviet expedition, from which not all returned. And now, only after many years one of the participants decided to tell the shocking truth about what happened there!

In 1911-1912, a real race for the conquest of the Southern Pole was launched between the expedition of the Norwegian researcher, Robert Scott turned out to be a real race for the conquest of the Southern Pole: Robert Scott was not lucky - he was ahead of Norwegians. Scott discovered the pennant at the cherished point left by the opponent's team 33 days before him. The Englishman decided to return, not repeating the Amundsen route, and went with four satellites through the region of the magnetic pole and died ...

For half a century later, the Soviet Expedition, founding the Mirny station in Antarctic, sent a group from six researchers deep into the continent to achieve a southern magnetic pole. Only two were returned. According to the official version, the cause of the tragedy was the cruel storm, the strongest frost and the engine failure from the all-terrain vehicle.

The next group of researchers, which went to the southern magnetic pole, became American. It was in 1962. The Americans took into account the sad experience of Soviet colleagues - the equipment took the most perfect, on the expedition, 17 people participated on three all-terrain vessels, with them a constant radio communications was supported. Nobody died in this expedition. But people returned on one all-terrain vehicle. All of them were on the verge of an insanity. Researchers were immediately evacuated to their homeland, but about what happened in the campaign is still known very little.

After Americans, Soviet researchers went again to the southern magnetic pole. One of the participants in this hike Yuri Efremovich Korshunov until recently lived in St. Petersburg. One reporter was able to "talk" him about what happened in that long campaign. The reporter recorded the story of the polar explorer, but he never managed to publish him. Korean, meanwhile died.

And recently, the story of Yuri Efremovich, replete with incredible details, appeared in American press. We give it translated from English.

"There was a polar day," Korshunov told, - and almost all the time our path was beautiful weather. The thermometer showed only a minus thirty degrees Celsius, the wind was not - for Antarctica it is rare. We have passed the route in three weeks without losing a minute to repair the car. The first trouble occurred when we broke the main camp at a point that corresponded to all our measurements, a southern magnetic pole. Everyone was exhausted, so we went to bed early, but could not sleep. Feeling unclear concern, I got up, got out of the tent and meters in three hundreds of our all-terrain vehicle ... Glowing ball! He jumped like a soccer ball, only his sizes were once a hundred more. I shouted, and all ran out. The ball stopped bouncing and slowly rolled to us, on the go changing the form and turning into some kind of sausage. The color changed and the color became darker, and in the front of the "sausage" began to appear a terrible face without an eye, but with a hole that look like a mouth. Snow under the "sausage" spiked, as if she was split. The mouth moved, and it seemed to me as if the "sausage" says something.

The photographer of the expedition Sasha Gorodetsky went forward with his camera, although the senior group Andrei Skobelev cried to stand in place! But Sasha continued to go, a clutch. And this thing ... She instantly changed the form again - stretched out with a narrow ribbon, and a glowing nimb aromates around Sasha, as if around the head of the saint. I remember how he shouted and dropped the device ...

At that moment, two shots rang out - they shot the scareves and the roma bushes standing to the right of me ... it seemed to me that they were shooting not discontinuous bullets, and the bombs were such a sound. Glowing tape has breaches, in all directions sprawled sparks and some short zippers, and Sasha turned out to be covered by fire.

I rushed to Sasha. He lay a slip and ... was dead! The head, palm and, as it turned out, the whole back as if they were charred, the polar special custheum turned into rags.

We tried to contact our radio with our station "Mirny", but nothing came out of this, something unimaginable was happening on the air - a solid whistle and growl. I never had to meet such a wild magnetic storm! She continued all three days that we spent on the pole.

The camera turned out to be melted, as if from direct lightning. Snow and ice - where "ribbon" was "ripped" - evaporated, forming a rut of a depth of half a meter and a width of a meter.

We buried Sasha on the pole.

In two days, bushes and Borisov died, then - Andrei Skobelev. Everything happened ... At first, one ball appeared - right on Sasha Hill, and a minute later - two more. They arose as if thickening out of the air, at a height of approximately hundreds of meters, slowly sank, hung over the earth and began to move on some difficult trajectories, approaching us. Andrei Skobelev removed, and I measured electromagnetic and spectral characteristics - the devices were installed in advance set meters in a hundred from the car. Bushes and Borisov stood next to the carbines. They began to shoot, barely only it seemed that the balls were pulled out, turning into a "sausage".

When we came to ourselves from shock, there were no balls, there was a smell of ozone in the air - as if after a strong thunderstorm. And the bushes with Borisov lay on the snow. We immediately rushed to them, thought, you can still help with something. Then they drew attention to Skobelev, he stood, pressing his palms to his eyes, the camera lay on ice meters in five, he was alive, but did not remember anything and did not see anything. He ... it's terribly remembered ... Baby. I went, sorry, under myself. I did not want to chew - only drank, spill liquid around. Probably it was necessary to feed it from the nipple, but they themselves understand, we did not have a nipple, Kustov and Borisov we could not even bury - there was no strength. I wanted one thing - to wash off as soon as possible. And the scarevians all the time Honykal and allowed saliva ...

On the way back he died. In the "peaceful" doctors identified heart failure and traces of frostbite, but not very strong, in any case, not deadly. In the end, we decided to tell the truth - too much what happened, to my surprise, we believed. But there were no convincing evidence. There was no possibility to poison a new expedition to the pole - neither research program nor the lack of the desired equipment was allowed. As far as I understood, the same as with us, happened in 1962 with the Americans, now you understand why no one is trying there? Someday, maybe they will go there again. But I do not think that this will happen soon - protection is too reliable. Such an idea costs millions of dollars. Even Americans are unlikely to be so rich - they are now, as you know, turn off our Antarctic stations. The main interest today is the so-called ozone hole. If it were not for the need for constant control over her, people would be unlikely there now. "

So far, there is no explanation for the phenomenon, which was observed by the participants of the polar expedition. In 1966, researchers called killer balls - plasmores. The American physicist Roy Christopher suggested that these Antarctic monsters are electrified alive creatures, plasma bunches.

He believes that plasmographs can live at an altitude of 400-800 kilometers above the ground. There they remain in a rarefied state, which makes them invisible. But near the southern pole plasma transportation can go down to the ground. Dense medium increases their own density, allowing them to see them.

According to the researcher, plasma vessels cause hallucinations and can hit them with electrical dischases. Christopher believes that these are living beings that existed even before organic forms of life. Naturally, so far it is only an assumption.

Perhaps in the future there is a reliable explanation for this mysterious phenomenon.