a) - Their psysical surroundings
The south pole is a snow-dessert, with snow-blizzards and degrees reaching below -40 and never rosed above -18.
Scott and his team had brought experimental motor sledges and ponies - an animal not at all created to travel in such conditions. The sledges broke down and the ponies died, leaving them with no means of transportation.
b) - the state of their their provisions
Of medicin they had 30 opium tabloids apiece and a tube of morphin.
They had seven days worth of food and 55 miles to the nearest depôt.
c) - Their psysical condition
The party was short on food supplies, but could not cut rations(it's dangerous in such wheather) and did not have enough for every day of the journey.
Captain Oates got very sick hands and feet practically useless due to frostbites. Wilson caught a cold and could not get off ski for quite some time.
Captain Titus Oates wanted them to leave him behind, but they didn't, and he just got worse.
In the end he walked outside and no one have seen him since.
After Oates' death, they all discovered that they had gotten serious frostbites.
Scott's right foot went(all of their feet were in bad condition), and amputation was the least he could hope for.
Wilson's feet were in the best condition, but still pretty bad.
d) - Their mental condition
They were of course disappointed about the losing to the Norwegians, but there are bigger problems at hand: Captain Oates was very near the end, and the felt it.
The wheather got bad - really bad - so one can only imagine what they were feeling when the food started to run out and their feet started to blacken. Not to mention that they couldn't walk very far - and sometimes not at all - during the day time, setting up camp was getting hard and Captain Oates' condition got worse.
Captain Oates however felt pride, with the way he was going to meet his death.
The rest of the team was determined to stick to the very end, but they had little hope of making it back home.
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