... he is there, somewhere, under the snow and the wind, in the coldest, emptiest place on earth. They put the bodies under the snow. 10 The Coldest Place on Earth dirty. Scott makes a lot ... past the mountains. At the depot there they ate one of the dead ponies. Then they went on - ten, eleven, twelve kilometres a day. They were ill because their clothes were not warm and they ... wrote. All the ponies are in a small room at the front of the ship. We eat our food in the room under the ponies, so our table is often wet and 26 The Coldest Place on Earth Across the Plateau...