Amundsen's route to the South Pole

In victory, there are no questions asked. After Roald Amundsen won the race for the South Pole on 14 December 1911 very few cared how he did it, least of all himself. As Fridtjof Nansen put it in his preface to Amundsen's book, The South Pole , ‘When the discoverer comes home in triumph, everyb...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Authors: Drewry, D. J., Huntford, R.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1979
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
South Pole
Fridtjof
Fridtjof Nansen
Polar Record
South pole
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400002084
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400002084
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Summary:In victory, there are no questions asked. After Roald Amundsen won the race for the South Pole on 14 December 1911 very few cared how he did it, least of all himself. As Fridtjof Nansen put it in his preface to Amundsen's book, The South Pole , ‘When the discoverer comes home in triumph, everybody cheers him. We are all proud of the accomplished deed…. We feel we have got a new feather in our cap, and got it cheaply’. Only the cognoscenti brood over the whys and wherefores, and the little question—how?

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