Queenstown

These mountains are called The Remarkables.  It's easy to see why.

The monument below was dedicated in 1913 to a team of British explorers that died in Antarctica the year before while trying to be the first team to reach the South Pole.  Launched from Queenstown, Robert Scott's team hiked some 800 miles across Antarctica to the Pole, only to find that a Norwegian guy named Amundsen had beaten them by about 5 weeks.  They all died in a snowstorm on the way back.  An injured team-member was holding back the team's progress, but they refused to leave him to die on his own.  In order to help save the team, in the face of a blizzard he told the other men "I'm just going outside, and may be some time".  He never came back, and the others all died a few days later.