He and half a dozen others skied 400km from Cambridge Bay to Gjoa Haven ... of Amundsen. Amundsen hoped to succeed where Nansen's original Fram expedition had failed and sail his ship, now the ...

A powerfully built man of over six feet in height, Amundsen was born into a family of merchant sea captains and prosperous ship owners in 1872. As a youth he insisted on sleeping with the windows ...