In December 1911, Roald Amundsen and his crew reached the South Pole, beating his rival, Robert Falcon Scott, by 35 days.

100 Years since Amundsen beat Scott to the pole. Dec. 18, 2011 — -- On December 14, 1911, a five-man Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen became the first explorers to reach the South Pole.

It’s as clear as the footage from 10,000 feet below that Shackleton was a hero. But there were many figures in what’s known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. For me, the most compelling of ...

In November 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his British team of explorers began a trek across the ice of Antarctica, trying to be the first to reach the South Pole. They arrived at their ...

In 1910, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott embarked on an ambitious expedition to Antarctica, aiming to explore uncharted wastelands, conduct scientific studies and above all else, become the first ...

The most famous and haunting of those specters is Robert Falcon Scott, who left the hut in November 1911, and never made it back. Scott led four men on an 800-mile march to plant a British flag at the ...

On this day (March 29) 100 years ago, Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott scrawled his last entry into the diary the British navy man had faithfully kept since the start of his ill-fated expedition ...

Part of the documentary series looking at some of the worlds greatest explorers and adventurers This volume looks at the heroic and tragic story of Scott of the Antarctic In a race to be the first to ...

A photographic study of the Antarctic huts that served as expediion bases for explorations led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton.

138 x 194mm 130 x 175mm approx. 110 x 80mm ...