I’m Robert Falcon Scott. I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, also wanted to get their first.

As Amundsen reckoned, if he won the South Pole, fame as well as financing of future exploration would be secure. Ostensibly preparing for the north, he secretly planned for the south. Winning the ...

"I wrote Christian’s kilometers on the inside of my tent and wrote all my days ... it wasn't a done deal until the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station was in sight. "I had doubts all the way ...

Chile's President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, after arriving at a US base there. The president said his visit to the Amundsen-Scott South ...

Amundsen even kept his plans for a South Pole expedition a secret from officials ... Scott and his party were confined to their tents, forced to wait out a series of howling blizzards.