In spring 2005 I traveled by ski and dogsled across Greenland with a team of Norwegians. The 70-day, 1,400-mile expedition re-enacted Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's 1911 discovery of the South ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was Norway. This was the reason a ... 100 researchers study the effects of climate change on the Arctic. From this spot at King’s Bay, polar explorer Roald Amundsen in May 1926 launched ...