Sadly… couldn’t make it to the Antarctic Circle. Mother Nature had decided it was not our time.
In 1901, Ernest Shackleton made it to 88degrees S; 97 miles from the South Pole.
When Captain James Cook tried, he made it to 67degrees 15’S in 1772 and 67degrees 31’S in 1773 and the furthest in 1774 at 71degrees 10’S.
Roald Amundsen was the First Man to Reach South Pole. On Dec. 14, 1911, he and four fellow Norwegian explorers became the first men to reach the South Pole, beating the ill-fated team of British Capt. Robert F. Scott by just over a month.
As you can see though, we were not going anywhere…
