An explorer who went to the South Pole, Robert Falcon Scott ... Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, also wanted to get their first. The race was on. FATIMA: That sounds ...

They had lost the race to the South Pole to Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team. Amundsen made it to the southernmost point on the planet about a month before Scott and his crew.

Corbis “It is splendid to have people who refuse to recognise difficulties,” Scott wrote early in the expedition to the South Pole ... Scott and Amundsen had reached the pole.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge celebrated on Wednesday the achievements of British Service personnel who recreated the famous Scott-Amundsen race to the South Pole. The teams raced each other ...

Robert Falcon Scott ... the South Pole. Capt Scott famously made it there in January 1912 only to find he had been pipped to the post a month earlier by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.

While he wins the race against Robert Scott to becomes the first man ever to conquer the South Pole, Amundsen will sacrifice everything to be the first to explore the icy wastelands of the North Pole.