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Ah well, one of my favourite books is The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Gerrard who was on Scott's fatal trip to the Antarctic, so I have never had a problem remembering which is which.
The book title doesn't refer to the final journey (obviously as all five participants died) but the side-trip he made with Wilson and Bowers to the hatchery of the Emperor penguins, called The Winter Journey in books about Scott. They were man-hauling sledges in the very dead of Antarctic winter with inadequate clothing, inadequate provisions and at one point having their tent blown away in a storm. It's amazing.
I haven't seen the film for that reason, if it makes any sense.
Final few lines in the book:
". . . And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg."
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