Fridtjof Nansen

It was the year in which Fridtjof Nansen began his world-famous voyage to the North Pole aboard the Fram.

Archive 2010-08-01 David McDuff 2010

Some names are simply unavoidable, particularly that of Fridtjof Nansen, the great Norwegian explorer who played a pivotal role in opening up the far north.

The Future History of the Arctic by Charles Emmerson; After the Ice by Alun Anderson; True North by Gavin Francis 2010

It was the year in which Fridtjof Nansen began his world-famous voyage to the North Pole aboard the Fram.

Chitambo David McDuff 2010

What one might find later, between Mounts Pedro Christophersen and Fridtjof Nansen, was not easy to say.

The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole 2009

Over by Fridtjof Nansen we could not go; this mountain here rose perpendicularly, in parts quite bare, and formed with the glacier a surface so wild and cut up that all thoughts of crossing the ice-field in that direction had to be instantly abandoned.

The South Pole~ Through the Mountains 2009

Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen had done the same thing a century before, and his Fram, carried by the drifting ice, emerged off eastern Greenland 34 months later.

Climate-Change Calculus 2009

The tent stood in the narrow gap between Fridtjof Nansen and Ole Engelstad.

The South Pole~ The Return to Framheim 2009

Mount Fridtjof Nansen, for example, had quite a blue-black look.

The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole 2009

We thought we recognized Fridtjof Nansen and Don Pedro Christophersen, and took good bearings of them in case the fog should return.

The South Pole~ The Return to Framheim 2009

Between Ole Engelstad and Fridtjof Nansen, on the other hand, it looked more promising, but as yet the first of these mountains obstructed our view so much that we could not decide with certainty.

The South Pole~ Through the Mountains 2009