Amundsen and the South Pole

S6, E22: The poles have always fascinated men. Axis of the Earth, magnetic indicators… The approach was hard though, since they are situated in the perpetual ice. James Cook was pretty close to them, but he never left his ship. The Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen surrendered some 450 km away from his destination. The Swede Salomon André tried a flyover via hot-air balloon, but he failed. It was the young Norwegian Roald Amundsen, who dreamed of discovering the poles ever since he was a kid, who started a great journey in 1903…