Meet Roald Amundsen: The Explorer Who Made Luck Unnecessary
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Learning from the people who lived there
Sailing the Northwest Passage between 1903 and 1906 — the first to do it — Roald Amundsen spent winters with the Netsilik Inuit and learned what they knew: fur clothing, dog driving, how to travel light in the cold.
The race
In 1910 he told his crew, only once at sea, that they were going south for the Pole, and telegraphed Robert Falcon Scott. His party reached the Pole on 14 December 1911, about five weeks ahead of Scott, with skis, dogs and depots laid in advance — and a plan, which he carried out, to feed some dogs to the others.
The last flight
In 1926 he flew over the North Pole in the airship Norge. In 1928 he disappeared over the Barents Sea, flying to search for the crashed airship of his former partner and rival, Umberto Nobile.
Why they belong at your table
Seat Amundsen when you are about to start something hard and want to know what you have not prepared for yet.
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