roald amundsen and robert falcon scott were two polar explorers who competed to become the first to reach the south pole

skis were in their infancy as locomotion devices for polar expeditions: amundsen embraced them, scott rejected them. amundsen won, scott and his men froze to death along the way 

adapt or die

it was dogs tho (imo?) Roald used (and ate) dogs on the way to/fro

he learned that from the natives in Greenland and Newfoundland iirc

also i've got a small family connection to Roald!

he was my great Grandma's cousin/uncle or something

my side of the family moved to Washington from Norway and Finland and he would keep in touch with them, sent letters, pretty cool!

wait, is this the equivalent of a twitter post where their great grandkid chimes in to correct you?

has farcaster made it?

there's a story from when he was a teen and his younger brother and him went skiing and got caught in a storm

they dug pits in the snow and managed to survive til morning

I can't believe how scary that would be, and I live in the arctic too, so I know the feeling of creeping cold!

yeah, it might be how my family likes to embellish, but they always would say... he took as many dogs as he could feed

and when the food ran out. he ate the dogs