Word: amundsen
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...years before Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole, Admiral Robert E. Peary went in the opposite direction to the top of the world -- or so he said. Skeptics have long challenged his claim, contending that he never got closer to the pole than 89 km (55 miles) away...
...achievement. They came in a radio message from a six-man team of adventurers and scientists that reached the South Pole last week after a 3,213-km (1,992-mile) trek across Antarctica by dogsled. The expedition was the first to reach the pole by dogsled since Roald Amundsen beat Robert Scott there 78 years ago. But impressive as the feat is, it marks only the midpoint of an even more ambitious journey: a 6,450-km (4,000-mile) campaign that would be the first dogsled trip across the entire frozen continent...
...sure, Fiennes and Burton had benefited from the largesse of scores of corporations and from technological support that did not exist when Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, became the first man to travel to the South Pole in 1911. In addition to the Benjamin Bowring, the Transglobe Expedition had at its disposal everything from Land Rovers to a Boston Whaler, from short-wave radios to a satellite navigation system. But it did not take long for the team to discover the limits of these aids. As Fiennes told TIME last week, "If you set out and plan your journey into...
DIED. Finn Ronne, 80, American polar explorer; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. The son of a Norwegian sailmaker who had gone to Antarctica with Roald Amundsen and Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Ronne joined Byrd's 1933 expedition there as a radio operator and dogsled driver. Over the next 25 years, he returned to the South Pole eight times (thrice with his wife Edith, one of the first women to make the trip). On a 15-month trek in 1946-48, he disproved the notion that the continent was divided in two, and finished charting the Weddell...