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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And yet the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is more than a state-owned life-support system in an extreme, icy environment, where temperatures plunge to around -65°C in winter. Built in 1956 at ...

The ship collided with the iceberg on Saturday in western Antarctica's Amundsen Sea, which was apparently shrouded in fog at the time of the crash, the South China Morning Post reported Tuesday ...