Modern polar travellers glide over the blue ice in East Antarctica. (Photo: Christoph Höbenreich, 2019) The development of modern expeditions to Antarctica and an attempt to classify ice travel While there have long been recognised classification systems in alpinism...
The British explorers Scott, Bowers, Wilson, Evans and Oates reached the South Pole on January 18, 1912 – and found Roald Amundsen’s tent there. The Norwegian beat them to it and was already at the Pole on December 14, 1911. While Amundsen was hailed as...