Fire on the Snow
... The play, ‘Fire on the Snow’, by Douglas Stewart tells the story of these five men, their final dash to the South Pole, and their heroic struggle to make it home again. ... They had to cope with disappointment, Amundsen beating them to the pole, the death of friends on the journey back, and the effects of the snow and ice, seeing nothing else for months. ... He was a hero, because, of his endurance, and when that gave out, his courage, to walk out into the snow, sacrificing himself, so his friends could go on. ... He was emotional, sometimes violent, but he wouldn’t let the snow get the better of him. He wouldn’t accept, as everyone else did, that the snow could not be conquered. ... Each of these men’s endurance and courage was like a flame inside them, that not even the terrible Antarctic could quench, the fire on the snow.