ABSTRACT
The Antarctic was unusually crowded in 2011. Single adventurers, tourist parties and research expeditions, all using different means of transport, set off to reach the South Pole in a massive re-enactment of the 1911 race between Roald Amundsen and Robert F. Scott. The most touted of these undertakings was a Norwegian expedition, which included the famous cross-country ski champion Vegard Ulvang. Following the exact route of the Amundsen expedition and using the same number of days, the goal was to reach the South Pole on 14 December – exactly one hundred years after Amundsen’s successful achievement. Unlike its predecessor, the expedition was greeted at its destination by an airborne delegation of 150 Norwegians, headed by Minister of State Jens Stoltenberg. 1
