The famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole (on Dec. 14, 1911), so when you watch “Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition,” you may think you’ve got a good ...

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.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection consists of 23 hand-colored glass lantern slides of images taken during the 1925 Arctic expedition attempt by Roald Amundsen and ...

Unlike the leader of the doomed Franklin expedition, Roald Amundsen delighted in getting to know and learning from the Inuit. By Norimitsu Onishi Julian Sancton’s “Madhouse at the End of the Earth” ...

"We may as well be on a foreign planet." Samuel Goldwyn Films has released a new official US trailer for the Norwegian adventure drama Amundsen: The Greatest Expedition, from director Espen Sandberg.

Generations dreamed of reaching the Earth's northernmost point, finally succeeding in 1926. Ahead of the centennial, we ...

Hurtigruten Expeditions has unveiled a 93-day, pole-to-pole expedition cruise. Departing August 8, 2022, this voyage on the MS Roald Amundsen will sail waters of Alaska, the Northwest Passage, ...

WHY IT RATES: Travelers ready to hit the seas again will be happy to learn aboutHurtigruten's new voyage.-Donald Wood, Breaking News Senior Writer. Hurtigruten, the world leader in exploration travel, ...

Julian Sancton’s “Madhouse at the End of the Earth” details Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery’s effort to explore Antarctica, and all of the ways it went wrong. By NICOLE CLIFFE This overstuffed trek ...

Hurtigruten Expeditions’ new battery-hybrid powered MS Fridtjof Nansen has made history with the northernmost naming ceremony for a passenger ship—at the location where expedition cruising began in ...