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

As Amundsen reckoned, if he won the South Pole, fame as well as financing of future exploration would be secure. Ostensibly preparing for the north, he secretly planned for the south. Winning the ...

I’m Robert Falcon Scott. 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 to the South Pole was one of the most dangerous competitions ... the epic showdown between two legendary explorers: Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott. From brutal conditions to ...

and the South Pole is almost beyond imagination, yet Roald Amundsen accomplished all three in less than 10 years in the early 20th century. What enabled this unassuming Norwegian to achieve such ...

Amundsen even kept his plans for a South Pole expedition a secret from officials ... As they ate away their precious rations, time slipped through their hands. By the time Scott's party reached ...

While he wins the race against Robert Scott to becomes the first man ever to conquer the South Pole, Amundsen will sacrifice everything to be the first to explore the icy wastelands of the North Pole.

US President Donald Trump has slashed tens of millions in emergency funds, says a senior former diplomat who wrote state policy for the white continent. As China and Russia announce plans to build new ...

During its oceanographic survey in the Amundsen Sea, China's 41st Antarctic expedition team successfully utilized a long piston gravity corer to perform gravity core sampling operations ...