He had secretly ruled out attempting to reach the North Pole, because Americans Robert Peary and Frederick Cook had already laid claim to that feat. Amundsen even kept his plans for a South Pole ...

Two years earlier Amundsen had been immersed in plans to extend his exploration of the Arctic Ocean and to drift over the North Pole, when he received news (later contested) that Robert Peary had ...

Returning to his hometown of Ketchum, author Buddy Levy will discuss his newest book, “Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy ...

In preparation for the South Pole expedition Amundsen led a six-man team on the first successful expedition to sail through the Northwest Passage, the sea route through the Arctic Ocean along the ...

As destination and dream, the North Pole has few peers, and of those whose dreams led them there, Erling Kagge has few peers ...

Six years later Roald Amundsen would become the first man to reach the South Pole. But it would be more than a decade and several attempts after that before someone would reach the North Pole.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Arctic was still a vast, unexplored and unknown expanse of ice and snow to western ...