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Amundsen and his crew left Oslo on the Fram taking 19 men 97 uskies a hut in sections and provisions for 2 years.
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Fram docked at Madeira in spain and amundsen sent a telegram to scott that he was going to the south pole instead. the crew were excited to be challenging scotts team.
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wooden hut they bought with them wich they named the hut 'Framheim' (home of Fram) after thier ship. during the five months of winter, from april to September, nine men carefully set up three diferent depots so that they would not have to carry extra supplies on thier main expedition.
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race to the south pole. They travelled the ost direct route , going over anything that got in thie way and travelled 32kms each day.
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reached thier last suppy depot, 772km from the sout pole.
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They had 42 dogs to carry 4 sleds
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climb an unexplored 3000m mountain glacier in very good weather Amundsen named them after his norwegien Queen, maud. At hte top they took 18 dogs to go on with them and shot the rest.
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starved and frozen horses were shot. The men had to pull thier own sleds in deep snow. Some men were snow blinded and fell tow crevasses.
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It was a glorious moment for the men and norway. They had 17 dogs and three sleds. first they set up camp,then over the three days, they skied for three days skiing in a 16km radius form the South Pole point to make sure of the correct position. Only then did they plant the norwiegen flag.
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exhausted and starving men reached at the south pole, only to find that Amundsen had beaten by 33 days. Now they had to survive the journey back in bad weather.
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Since 21st we have had a continuous gale WSW and SW We had fuel to make two cups of tea apiece and bare food for two days on the 20th Every day we ahve been ready to start for our depot 11 miley away but outside the door of the tent it remains a scene of whirling drift I do not think we can hope for much better things now we shall stick it out to the end but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far
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For gods sake look after our people
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