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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.48,0:00:11.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Roald Amundsen had spent nearly two\Nyears preparing his Arctic expedition.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.43,0:00:16.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had secured funding from the Norwegian\NCrown and hand-picked a trusted crew.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.21,0:00:20.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He’d even received the blessing of\Nthe famed explorer Fridtjof Nansen,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.47,0:00:25.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with the use of his ship, Fram, \Nspecially constructed to withstand the ice.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.95,0:00:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, with the voyage departing, he had \None final announcement to his shipmates:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.28,0:00:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were going to head in the\Nopposite direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.30,0:00:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the early 20th century,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.84,0:00:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nearly every region of the globe had\Nbeen visited and mapped,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.27,0:00:43.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with only two key locations\Nremaining:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.19,0:00:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the North Pole, deep in the\Nfrozen waters of the Arctic region,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.88,0:00:51.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the South Pole, nestled within a\Nrecently discovered icy continent
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.17,0:00:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the vast Antarctic Ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.68,0:00:56.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A veteran of several expeditions, \N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.05,0:00:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amundsen had long dreamed of\Nreaching the North Pole.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.63,0:01:02.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in 1909, amidst his preparations,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.57,0:01:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,news came that the American explorers\NFrederick Cook and Robert Peary
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.24,0:01:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had staked rival claims\Nto the achievement.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.57,0:01:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead of abandoning the planned voyage,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.09,0:01:19.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amundsen decided to alter its course to\Nwhat he called “the last great problem.”
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.69,0:01:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Amundsen’s crew weren’t \Nthe only ones kept in the dark.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.93,0:01:27.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,British naval officer Robert F. Scott had\Nalready visited the Antarctic,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.19,0:01:31.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was leading his own \NSouth Pole expedition.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.09,0:01:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, as Scott’s ship Terra Nova \Nreached Melbourne in 1910,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.12,0:01:40.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was greeted with the news\Nthat Amundsen was also heading south.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.86,0:01:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reluctantly, Scott found himself pitted\Nagainst the Norwegian
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.64,0:01:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in what the newspapers \Ncalled a ‘race to the Pole.’
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.54,0:01:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet if it was a race,\Nit was a strange one.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.91,0:01:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The expeditions left at different times\Nfrom different locations,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.13,0:01:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they had very different \Nplans for the journey.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.75,0:02:03.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amundsen was focused solely\Non reaching the Pole.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.01,0:02:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Informed by his Arctic exploration,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.10,0:02:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he drew on both Inuit and \NNorwegian experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.31,0:02:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,arriving with a small team of\Nmen and more than a hundred dogs.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.36,0:02:15.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His explorers were clothed\Nin sealskin and furs,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.57,0:02:18.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as specially\Ndesigned skis and boots.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.73,0:02:21.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Scott's venture was more complicated.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.35,0:02:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Launching an extensive scientific \Nresearch expedition,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.90,0:02:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he traveled with over three times \Nmore men than Amundsen,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.12,0:02:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alongside over 30 dogs, \N19 Siberian ponies,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.62,0:02:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and three state-of-the-art\Nmotorized sledges.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.11,0:02:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But these additional tools and bodies
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.98,0:02:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weighed down the ship as it battled\Nthe storms of the southern ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.70,0:02:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as they finally began to lay supplies,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.45,0:02:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they found both their ponies and \Nmotor-sledges ineffective
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.99,0:02:50.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the harsh ice and snow.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.81,0:02:55.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the spring of 1911, after waiting out\Nthe long polar night,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.19,0:02:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both parties began the journey south. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.57,0:03:00.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scott’s team traveled \Nover the Beardmore Glacier,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.71,0:03:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,following the path of Ernest Shackleton's\Nearlier attempt to reach the pole.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.80,0:03:09.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But although this course had been\Ndocumented, it proved slow and laborious.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.55,0:03:12.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile, despite an initial false start,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.15,0:03:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amundsen’s five-man team made good time\Nusing a previously uncharted route
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.12,0:03:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the same Transantarctic Mountains.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.14,0:03:21.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They stayed ahead of Scott’s team,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.94,0:03:26.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and on December 14, arrived first\Nat their desolate destination.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.67,0:03:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To avoid the ambiguity that surrounded\NCook and Peary’s North Pole claims,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.67,0:03:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amundsen’s team traversed\Nthe area in a grid
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.58,0:03:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make sure they covered\Nthe Pole’s location.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.70,0:03:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along with flags and a tent marker,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.61,0:03:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they left a letter for Scott, which would\Nnot be found until over a month later.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.03,0:03:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when Scott’s party\Nfinally reached the pole,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.30,0:03:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,losing the ‘race’ was\Nthe least of their problems. \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.16,0:03:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the way back towards the camp,\Ntwo of the five men succumbed to frostbite
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.90,0:03:56.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starvation, and exhaustion.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.10,0:03:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The remaining explorers hoped for a\Nprearranged rendezvous
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.34,0:04:01.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a team sent from their base,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.11,0:04:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but due to a series of mishaps, \Nmisjudgements and miscommunications,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.47,0:04:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their rescue never arrived.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.57,0:04:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their remains, along with Scott’s diary,\Nwould not be found until spring.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.85,0:04:15.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, scientists from various countries\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.61,0:04:18.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,live and work at Antarctic \Nresearch stations.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.73,0:04:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the journeys of these early\Nexplorers are not forgotten.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.09,0:04:25.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite their divergent fates,\Nthey are forever joined in history,\N
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.89,0:04:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the name of the research\Nbase that marks the South Pole.