It was a treacherous route across ... While Amundsen spent all his time preparing for a lightning-fast dash to the South Pole once the summer began in November, Scott was busy launching scientific ...

How do you do, Ollie? 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 ...

Now he was at the opposite end of the world, in the Antarctic, aiming for the most prestigious prize the world of exploration still offered: the South Pole ... Falcon Scott. Amundsen was keenly ...

On arriving at the geographical South Pole in January 1912, Scott and his party discovered they had been beaten to it by a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen. The polar team led by Scott died on ...

Chile's President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, after arriving at a US base there. The president said his visit to the Amundsen-Scott South ...

only five of the team remained en route to the 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 Amundsen ...

On December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the geographic South Pole, part of a tragic race against Britain’s Robert Scott who died of exhaustion and cold on the ...

The team of four women - Ann Bancroft, Sunniva Sorby, Sue Giller, Anne Dal Vera - at the South Pole in 1993 ... like Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott, and, before them, James ...

On December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the geographic South Pole, part of a tragic race against Britain's Robert Scott who died of exhaustion and cold on the return ...

On December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the geographic South Pole, part of a tragic race against Britain's Robert Scott who died of exhaustion and cold on the return ...