For one man to have conquered the Northwest Passage, the North Magnetic Pole, and the South Pole is almost beyond imagination, yet Roald ... Inuit are lazy and they never listen to orders ...

Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the Netsilik tribe of Inuit on King William Island, polar explorer Roald Amundsen became an expert igloo builder, even though at ...

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 ...

In 1905, during Roald Amundsen's first transit of the Northwest ... the coldest time of year -- so that an Inuit man can snowmobile overland from Cambridge Bay to pick him up while there is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Six years later Roald Amundsen would become the first man to ... and straw-stuffed winter mukluks (a trick he had learned from the Inuit) that would save their feet from frostbite, and potentially ...