Review: In 'After the North Pole,' explorer chronicles impossible challenges
Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge completed the “Three Poles Challenge,” becoming the first person to reach the North Pole, ...
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Climate Change from a Polar Explorer's Perspective
The 70-day, 1,400-mile expedition re-enacted Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's 1911 discovery of the South Pole. (See "Cold Fires Up Arctic Adventurer," fall 2007.) Amundsen is one of my heroes. In ...
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Arctic Explorers
But the Arctic would eventually claim his life ... in a competition to be the first to fly over the North Pole. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first man ever to reach the South Pole ...
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The Man Who Took the Prize
The writer of this terse diary entry was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer who had won renown five years earlier for being the first to sail the Arctic's fabled Northwest Passage from the ...
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Norway's Reluctant Hero
Why the Arctic? Well, Amundsen's feelings really expressed something that was going on in Scandinavia in general, Norway in particular ... him to become a polar explorer and indeed to be the ...
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Gruelling Arctic conditions couldn’t stop her: One explorer’s relentless race to save what’s left before it’s gone
British polar explorer Felicity Aston understands ... where they witnessed drastic changes. In Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, the team had prepared for expected ...
Exploring Norway and the Arctic by cruise ship — and by wheelchair
The golden September sun was wonderfully warm as I passed through the sliding glass doors at the aft of the ninth deck and ...