Shackleton felt this physical failure as a personal stigma, and on his return to England he was determined to prove himself, in the words of Discovery's second-in command Albert Armitage, as "a better man than Scott".
Shackleton følte dette som et personlig stigma, og kom tilbage til England fast besluttet på at bevise, at han, med ordene til "Discovery"s næstkommanderende Albert Armitage, var en "bedre mand end Scott".