Hoy es el 105 aniversario de la llegada de Roald Amundsen al Polo Sur, el 14 de diciembre de 1911.
"So we arrived, and were able to raise our flag at the geographical South Pole … Thanks be to God!" - Roald Amundsen diary, 14 December, 1911
Siendo el primero en pisarlo, llegando antes que Robert Falcon Scott, que llegó el 17 de enero.
Todos los integrantes de la expedición de Scott perecieron a la vuelta.
"The Norwegians have forestalled us and are first at the Pole. It is a terrible disappointment." - Robert Falcon Scott, diary January 1912
"Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale …" - From Scott’s ‘message to the public’, written as he lay dying in his tent
