Roald Amundsen - Norske eventyrere

Roald Amundsen - Norske eventyrere

Race with death; The race to the South Pole between Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott in 1911-1912 was 300 miles of bloodshed for the winners and an icy death for the losers. Roald Amundsen had secretly prepared to conquer the South Pole. He assembled the best and strongest polar specialists he could find. They were highly trained, they developed, they tested and improved their equipment and they released depots with a good margin of safety. Moreover, Amundsen had painstakingly gathered knowledge about the extreme conditions, and he had learned survival in arctic regions from the very best; the Inuit. There he learned that draft dogs were the key to success. His competitor was the English Robert Scott. Scott bet on motorized draft wagons and ponies. Both parts were untested in polar environments, and both parts failed. Thus Scott and his men had to pull their sleds themselves. It was a death march. When Scott and his men arrived at the South Pole, they found the Norwegian flag. On the way back they starved and froze to death. By then Amundsen was already on his way back to civilization - and hero status in the ship Fram. Hear the whole wonderful story of Roald Amundsen on the Villmarksliv podcast.

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