In 1928, the world-famous polar explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) died trying to save his worst enemy Umberto Nobile. To understand the true motives of this act, you need to know the whole background, because Amundsen was not always a model of nobility. In 1896 (when Fridtjof Nansen had already triumphantly returned from a three-year expedition on the Fram), Amundsen was hired as a sailor on his first expedition and in 1897 went to the shores of Antarctica. On the ship, he met Frederick Cook, who would be the first to reach the North Pole in 1908. This news will overturn Amundsen's expedition plan, and he secretly decides to go instead of the North Pole to the South, which he will reach at the end of 1911, ahead of the English expedition of Robert Scott. re-routing already from Madeira. However, the British were not going to forgive him for the stolen victory and the death of all members of Scott's group. Having disliked Amundsen for his 1907 report to the Royal Geographical Society on his successful conquest of the Northwest Passage, they now gave him a real persecution.
Nansen, Norway's envoy to Great Britain, was outraged by this. However, he demanded that Amundsen fulfill the promise given to him and still go on a long-term drift in the Arctic Ocean. Which was performed by Amundsen in 1918. Having reached the Bering Strait after three winters and having put the Maud ship in the repair shipyards of Seattle, Amundsen left the expedition and started preparing a completely new, air expedition to the North Pole, which still haunted him ...
Author and narrator: Yana Shklyarskaya
Shooting and editing: Dmitry Olshansky