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 ...

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.

He feared that government officials would be hesitant to challenge Great Britain, upon whom they were highly dependent, in a race ... Roald Amundsen raised the flag of Norway at the South Pole ...

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.

Roald Amundsen’s dream of reaching the North Pole haunts him ... While he wins the race against Robert Scott to becomes the first man ever to conquer the South Pole, Amundsen will sacrifice ...

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 ...

Corbis “It is splendid to have people who refuse to recognise difficulties,” Scott wrote early in the expedition to the South Pole ... left by the explorer Roald Amundsen, whose party had ...

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