Anders Brenna, 38, of Oslo will set out early this spring to follow the 1905 route of two of Roald Amundsen's men up the east ...

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 ...

The writer of this terse diary entry was Roald Amundsen ... north in the ship Gjøa with a remarkably small crew of only six men (Franklin had taken 129) to seek the Northwest Passage and ...

In 1900, I bought the ship for this my first expedition. She was a small fishing smack from the northern part of Norway. She was 47 tons and of the same age as myself. [Amundsen and the ship ...

HX’s Fridtjof Nansen is set to celebrate its fifth year of service for HX (formerly Hurtigruten Expeditions) in early March.

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 ...

Six years later Roald Amundsen ... most notably Amundsen and Nobile. Amundsen was arguably the greatest explorer of his day. He navigated the Northwest Passage in 1906 and beat Robert Falcon ...