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Jul. 23, 2010
The Race to the South Pole
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| Almost one hundred years ago, two teams of explorers set off on dueling quests to be the first to reach the South Pole. One team returned victorious without losing a single man, while the other team perished. We'll take a look at a new museum exhibition that looks at the histories of explorers Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott. |
Produced by Katherine Wells
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John Huston
Polar Explorer
Member, modern Amundsen team, "Blizzard: Race to the Pole" (BBC, 2006)
Chicago, Illinois -
Ross MacPhee
Curator, Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History
Author, "Race to the End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole" (Sterling, 2010)
New York, New York
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