text: scott/amundsen and the 1911/12 race to the south pole? it is a well known fact that the only reason that amundsen beat scott to the south pole was mostly due to amundsen and his norwegian polar team having the benefit of prior inuit (eskimos to americans) artic training, this was back when amundsen became the 1st human to scale the full route of the artic's  infamous north west passage and used that experience/training on his south pole expedition  so, it begs the question, if the race had been equal and fair and all that (i.e. both scott and amundsen had the benefit of same training/experience etc.) if scott also had the benefit of norwegian/british inuit trained polar explorers (incl. himself) would scott have beaten amundsen to the south pole (and not the other way around) as a brit, i suppose i am biased, but would like to think that yes scott would have won and lived.