Winning the South Pole, however, was not to be taken for ... weakness in me—but I felt tears in my eyes." The Gjøa expedition gave Amundsen more than his first geographic prize.

Colliard had also guided last-degree expeditions to the North and ... In the Frenchman's mind, it wasn't a done deal until the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station was in sight.

Amundsen even kept his plans for a South Pole expedition a secret from officials within the Norwegian government. He feared that government officials would be hesitant to challenge Great Britain ...

Members of the British Services Antarctic Expedition ... Pole: Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers and Evans. On 17 January 1912, they reached the Pole, only to find that a Norwegian party led by Roald ...

Corbis “It is splendid to have people who refuse to recognise difficulties,” Scott wrote early in the expedition ... that both Scott and Amundsen had reached the pole. Bowers ...

The 70-day, 1,400-mile expedition re-enacted Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's 1911 discovery of the South Pole. (See "Cold Fires Up Arctic Adventurer," fall 2007.) Amundsen is one of my heroes. In ...

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

I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen ... with everything I needed for the expedition. We had problems right away.

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Discovery 1901-1904 Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society, Scott led the British National Antarctic Expedition ... to reach the South Pole.

Early Antarctic expeditions, such as Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition, took advantage of marine mammal and bird resources for food during their winter-over periods. However, the Protocol ...