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 ... It was just another ski tour.

In 1905, during Roald Amundsen's first transit of the Northwest ... He did a 120km solo ski trip in Hardangervidda, a subarctic national park between Bergen and Oslo. There, he traveled 120km ...

Roald Engebreth Gravning Amundsen of Norway took pride in being referred to as "the last of the Vikings." A powerfully built man of over six feet in height, Amundsen was born into a family of ...

Title holder Harald Østberg Amundsen won the men's race while fellow Norwegian Astrid Øyre Slind was a surprise women's winner in stage three of cross country's Tour de Ski on Tuesday in Italy.