The writer of this terse diary entry was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who had won renown five years earlier for being the first to sail the Arctic's fabled Northwest Passage from the ...

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 ...

They will serve aboard HNoMS Roald Amundsen next month ... They dealt with a mock helicopter crash - simulated by two smashed cars - using the Norwegian firefighting kit to tackle a simulated ...

In this video, we uncover the true story behind the epic showdown between two legendary explorers: Roald Amundsen and Robert ... Performance for D.C. Plane Crash Victims Jeremy Clarkson praises ...

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 ...

The "salute to adventurers" was fired by the coast artillery when the Norwegian naval auxiliary ship Fram left the Horten Admiralty base for Spitsbergen with Captain Roald Amundsen. On Saturday ...

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 ... disaster when the expedition’s two Dornier-Wals flying boats crash-landed after eight hours, having covered about 600 miles ...