Roald Amundsen lived to experience other polar adventures, including flying over the North Pole in a dirigible in 1926. But the Arctic would eventually claim his life, too. While flying on a ...

When Roald Amundsen set up his base camp in ... making several unsuccessful attempts to fly over the North Pole. In 1926 he commanded the airship Norge, flown by Italian pilot Umberto Nobile ...

For one man to have conquered the Northwest Passage, the North Magnetic Pole, and the South Pole is almost beyond imagination, yet Roald Amundsen accomplished all three in less than 10 years in ...

In 1905, during Roald Amundsen's first transit of the Northwest ... across the Arctic Ocean via the North Pole. To this end, he had Hansen travel the north coast of Ellesmere Island and leave ...

The mission is named after the Fram, a steam-and-sail powered ship used by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen during his historic 1910-1912 expedition to the South Pole. The polar orbit means the ...

Six years later Roald Amundsen would become the first man to reach the South Pole. But it would be more than a decade and several attempts after that before someone would reach the North Pole.

Roald Amundsen’s dream of reaching the North Pole haunts him throughout his life. He is obsessed with the idea of discovering the last unchartered lands of the world. While he wins the race ...

Byrd, Roald Amundsen, and Lincoln Ellsworth had ... had doubts about the veracity of Byrd's claim to have flown over the North Pole. His doubts were confirmed when Floyd Bennett, Byrd's pilot ...