I Am Just Going Outside: Michael SmithThe Antarctic tragedy of Captain Oates. On March 17, 1912, he crawled from a tent to his death in blizzard conditions of 40 degrees Celsius. He had always been an outsider on Scott's Polar expedition. He died on his 32nd birthday, unaware that his daughter had been born. This is the first major biography of Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates, who became a dashing cavalry officer and hero in the Boer War, a successful jockey and, having paid 1,000 to