Roald Engebreth Gravning Amundsen of Norway took pride in being ... Amundsen even kept his plans for a South Pole expedition a secret from officials within the Norwegian government.

Roald Amundsen’s dream of reaching the ... against Robert Scott to becomes the first man ever to conquer the South Pole, Amundsen will sacrifice everything to be the first to explore the icy ...

Members of the British Services Antarctic Expedition ... Pole: Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers and Evans. On 17 January 1912, they reached the Pole, only to find that a Norwegian party led by Roald ...

The writer of this terse diary entry was Roald ... the South Pole. Planned with characteristic meticulousness, this bold venture was also the result of happenstance. Two years earlier Amundsen ...

I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen ... with everything I needed for the expedition. We had problems right away.

They had lost the race to the South Pole to Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team ... so he joined an Antarctic expedition in 1899. He was appointed as the commander and led a team ...

Corbis “It is splendid to have people who refuse to recognise difficulties,” Scott wrote early in the expedition to the South Pole ... left by the explorer Roald Amundsen, whose party had ...

The attendees feasted on 'Terra Nova' fillets of beef, 'Captain Scott' souffle and 'South Pole' ice pudding ... month earlier by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. On their return journey across ...