trips before they were going to the pole to go out and study penguins or to go study glaciers or do other work. One of them, Wilson, was the scientific chief and zoologist. In contrast with Amundsen, there were nine of them down there, every one of them was focused 100 percent on getting the team to the pole. They were focused—that's one of the strengths of focus. If you want to study leadership there's many lessons you can learn from Amundsen: He had a goal, he knew how to get there, and he had a brilliant trip down, a brilliant trip back. He gained weight on the trip.

Steve: That was an amazing part of the story. These guys are running around on Antarctica, it's 70 degrees belowso called Discovery expedition in 1901, and they found that there was a continent down there and they found rocks that looked like they suggested there might have once been plant life but no distinct fossils. Well, Shackleton goes next. He had been on the first one but he took his own expedition in 1906, and he took better scientists and better geologists, and they discovered plant fossils in coal seams, beds of coal in Antarctica. So not only did they establish it was a continent but that it was once warm enough to harbor enough life to have produced whole beds of coal and a lot of distinct fossils. So they have gone a long way but they still didn't find this particular type. And so what