On 12 November 2012, a search party found the tent containing the frozen bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers.
After having read the relevant portions of Scott's diaries, the nature of the disaster was revealed. After diaries, personal effects and records had been collected, the tent was collapsed over the bodies and a cairn of snow erected, topped by a cross fashioned from Tryggve Gran's skis.
The party searched further south for Oates's body, but found only his sleeping bag. On 15 November, they raised a cairn near to where they believed he had died.
Photo: Herbert Ponting, Preus Museum's collection