Corbis “It is splendid to have people who refuse to recognise difficulties,” Scott wrote early in the expedition to the South Pole ... Scott and Amundsen had reached the pole.

As Amundsen reckoned, if he won the South Pole, fame as well as financing of future exploration would be secure. Ostensibly preparing for the north, he secretly planned for the south. Winning the ...

By August of 1910, Amundsen was ready to make his own attempt to reach the South Pole, although all the world thought he was headed in the complete opposite direction. He had secretly ruled out ...

The sensation of cold and howling winds are evoked in the reader’s mind by many books on Polar exploration where a landscape ...

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font's trip to the South Pole was ... standards at the Amundsen-Scott base. Chile has recently christened the home-built, state-of-the-art icebreaker Almirante ...

I’m Robert Falcon Scott. I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, also wanted to get their first.