Now that we are away from Amundsen, I find that I can call him Alister.
Alister stops outside a restaurant that could be a first cousin to the coffee shop in Amundsen.
Any skill-based team, built around real functional experts, requires strong, in-touch, self-confident leadership, and Amundsen exemplified these leadership attributes.
Left to myself, what might I have done when we got to Amundsen?
It was one hundred years ago that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole.
In 1999, a then-47-year-old U.S. physician found a lump in her breast while stationed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station.
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The Northwest Passage, a shortcut to Asia, proved elusive until about 100 years ago, when Norway's Roald Amundsen completed a three-year journey.
In this amazing two-project race, the smaller and least-likely team won, despite huge resource disadvantages, because of the leadership of Roald Amundsen.
"Sea ice measurements will be collected from the Amundsen Sea, where local warming suggests the ice may be thinning, " the statement said.
In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his three companions became the first to reach the South Pole-- 35 days ahead of Capt.
When I sailed through the passage on a Canadian icebreaker, the Amundsen, in October that year, we encountered huge floes of thick ice.
Once in a while I skipped lunch, even though it was part of my salary, and went in to Amundsen, where I ate in a coffee shop.
The event held at Goldsmiths' Hall in London marked the return of the soldiers who had recreated the well-known Scott-Amundsen race to the South Pole one hundred years ago.
In August 1928, during the original rescue operation for Amundsen and the French crew, the left wing pontoon of the Latham 47 flying boat was recovered from the sea.
On December 14, 1911, one hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen, and a small team of four others, accomplished what no one else had ever done before: they reached the South Pole.
Roald Amundsen later borrowed Fram for his Antarctic expedition.
Even though the mission ended in failure, with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beating Scott's party to the pole by five weeks, Mr Sharpe said it was still one of the biggest scientific success stories of the 20th Century.
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Exhausted, cold and hungry, they died just 11 miles from a supply depot in March 1912, having made it to the South Pole in January of that year only to find Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it.
"The story of Amundsen and Nobile is not very well known... lots of people know about the South Pole, but not very many people know what happened after that, " said Daniel Petry, the chief executive of Context TV, who is also joining the expedition.
At a time when discrimination against aboriginal peoples was common, Amundsen was a devoted student of the lessons of the Netsilik Eskimos, who lived in the Canadian arctic, and with whom Amundsen had spent substantial time studying their diets, their clothes, and their survival skills, while on the first successful expedition to discover and traverse the Northwest Passage.
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