Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has paid tribute to the Scots adventurer who perished on Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole exactly a century ago.
Greenock-born Lieutenant Henry "Birdie" Bowers was a member of the Terra Nova Expedition that reached the South Pole in 1912.
On the return trip to base camp Bowers and Scott, along with the other three members of the crew, died from starvation and the effects of extreme cold.
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