#arctic explorer

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bacchanalium:

Hey The Terror fandom, I think you may find this interesting. In 2019, there will be a movie about Roald Amundsen, the first polar explorer to sail through the Northwest Passage. 

Really want to see this. It looks like it praises Amundsen’s accomplishments while not glossing over his childishness and arrogance. People always fight over him because of the crappy Roland Huntford book, but he was just a person of contrasts who accomplished a lot using native survival tactics. He completed the northwest and northeast passages, saw both poles, and was a pioneer in polar flight but in the end his arrogance and complacency did him in. He disappeared in the arctic on a mission to more or less prove a point to his rival Umberto Nobile in a sub-standard plane.

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