preparing for a repeat of the South Pole feat on 14 December 1911 first accomplished by explorer Roald Amundsen and a month later by Sir Robert Scott. According to a piece in La Prensa Austral ...

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.

By August of 1910, Amundsen was ready to make his own attempt to reach the South Pole, although all the world thought he was headed in the complete opposite direction. He had secretly ruled out ...

Pictured is a view of the South Pole. Photo by NOAA on Unsplash Karen Kyllesø accomplished the feat overnight between Monday and Tuesday, 114 years after fellow Norwegian and polar explorer Roald ...