Travel Etc: Grand tours; A New Year's greeting from the ice Writers' adventures in literature. This week: Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen sees in 1895 with Norwegian punch and aurora borealis

The Independent on Sunday | December 29, 2002 | Copyright

In 1895, Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), a Norwegian Arctic explorer, set forth to do what previous polar adventurers had desperately tried to avoid: get caught in pack ice and drift across the North Pole. He was a mentor for both Shackleton and Scott, though the latter ignored Nansen's advice, consequently costing him and his four men their lives in the Antarctic. Nansen spent three years adrift in the Arctic before being forced to abandon ship and return home. In spite of this, his pioneering expedition remains one of the most notorious success stories of polar exploration. Nansen's ...

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