I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, also wanted to get their first. The race was on.

They had lost the race to the South Pole to Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team. Amundsen made it to the southernmost point on the planet about a month before Scott and his crew.

The race to the South Pole was one of the most dangerous ... behind the epic showdown between two legendary explorers: Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott. From brutal conditions to shocking ...

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 ...

SpaceX is planning a launch as early as Monday evening. If successful, it will mark the first crewed mission to polar orbit ...

After reading a newspaper about Roald Amundsen being missing in the ... Roald proposes to go to the South Pole, starting a race against English explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who wants the same ...

Forgive me for starting with superlatives, but I have no choice. I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first ...