This was Roald Amundsen's home for 20 years before his ... According to his son, Trygve would never have accompanied Scott had he known Amundsen's true intention. "But he always talked about ...

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 ...

Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen visited Butte in April 1908. At the time he was most renowned as the first to lead a traverse of the Northwest Passage by ship, completed in 1906 with a crew of six ...

But the trip, called the Maud Expedition, did not start well. That first winter, Amundsen fell through the ice, broke his arm in two places, was attacked by a polar bear and almost died from ...