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...Quite what to read was an easy decision: The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s 1922 account of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s calamitous 1910-13 expedition to reach the South Pole....
...Our man, Robert Scott, on the other hand, believed in the “gentlemanly art of man-hauling” and was remembered because his end was so British, tragic and beautiful....
...One member dubs Antarctica “truly, a land of unsurpassed desolation”. 1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen beats Britain’s Robert Scott to become the first to reach the South Pole....
...In the UK, this is usually told as a tale of heroic failure: explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his team arrived at the pole to find the Norwegian flag flying....
...One example that I've analysed in this week's column is the way his Norwegian compatriot Roald Amundsen, the Antarctic explorer, beat British rival Robert Scott to the South Pole, by refining his approach...
...Norwegian Astrid Furholt will attempt to be the first woman to repeat Roald Amundsen’s 1911/12 route, starting on the northern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, where Amundsen arrived aboard the Fram, rather than...
...On December 14 1911, Roald Amundsen and his Norwegian team became the first people to reach the South Pole, beating Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition by more than four weeks....
...Sir, With reference to your review “Southern exposure” (December 24) Helmer Hanssen’s statement on Captain Robert Scott’s final journey does ring true....
...“It is no disparagement of Amundsen and the rest of us when I say that Scott’s achievement far exceeded ours,” he wrote....
...January 17 1912: Captain Robert Falcon Scott arrived to plant the Union Jack at the South Pole. “Great God,” he famously wrote in his diary, “this is an awful place.”...
...Their expedition will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the original race to the South Pole between explorers Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen....
...Coincidentally a fellow Norwegian, Amundsen defied the odds when his small team of expert explorers became the first to set foot on the South Pole, beating a better-funded English group led by Robert Falcon...
...This summer the company merged with another young brand, Amundsen Oslo....
...Scott finding Amundsen’s flag at the South Pole is a metaphor for every modern traveller’s sense of being pre-empted. But perhaps discovery was always a state of mind, a dream....
...Could it be that, however impressive some corporate teams may be, none comes even close to the sort of exceptional performance of Robert Oppenheimer and Richard Feynman, of Roald Amundsen and his team, of...
...Hempleman-Adams pauses for a moment, then offers some words by Robert Browning: “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp or what is a heaven for.”...
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