Roald Amundsen: The Man Who Reached Both Poles

He conquered both ends of the Earth — and died flying to the rescue of the man he hated. Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian sea captain's son who abandoned medicine for the ice and became, by any measure, the greatest polar explorer who ever lived: the first man through the Northwest Passage, the first to the South Pole, and the first to reach the North Pole. He did it not by heroics but by study — wintering with the Netsilik Inuit to learn their clothing, their diet and their dogs, and planning every expedition to the last biscuit.

This biography follows the whole unmatched career: the Belgica's nightmare winter in the Antarctic night; the little Gjøa's three-year transit of the Passage; the secret switch at Madeira that turned a North Pole expedition into the race against Scott, and the ninety-nine-day dash that won it; the Maud's Northeast Passage, the broken arm and the polar bear; the flying boats lost on the ice in 1925 and the Norge airship over the North Pole in 1926. It ends with debt, feud and bankruptcy — and with June 18, 1928, when Amundsen took off from Tromsø to search for his rival Umberto Nobile and never returned.

Inside this biography:

Chapter 1: A Boy of the North (1872–1888)

Chapter 2: The Belgica Winter (1888–1899)

Chapter 3: The Northwest Passage (1899–1906)

Chapter 4: The Secret Plan (1906–1910)

Chapter 5: Framheim (1910–1911)

Chapter 6: The Dash to the Pole (1911–1912)

Chapter 7: Victory and Its Price (1912–1918)

Chapter 8: The Maud and the Northeast Passage (1918–1922)

Chapter 9: Wings Over the Pole (1922–1926)

Chapter 10: The Last Flight (1926–Today)

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