Amundsen pointed to their successes in the northern hemisphere and the relative ease of handling dogs compared with ponies especially in heavily crevassed areas where a fallen. The party turned for home and with light sledges travelled swiftly to reach framheim on 22 march.
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It explores the strategy methodology and personal insights of the explorer and his crew in employing animals to achieve their goal.
Amundsen dogs. Amundsen could hunt food and give it to the dogs and the people something which lowered the amount of rations needed and kept certain diseases away. Amundsen helmer hanssen prestrud johansen and wisting then continued with the strongest dogs hoping to reach 83 s but in difficult conditions they halted at 82 s on 8 march. All 116 dogs are identified individually.
This book is an analytical account of how roald amundsen used sledge dogs to discover the south pole in 1911 and is the first to name and identify all 116 polar dogs who were part of the norwegian antarctic expedition of 1910 1912. Surprisingly however almost no attention has been given to the experience of amundsen s dogs whose extreme suffering seems to have vanished into a collective blind spot. Scott s ponies and amundsen s dogs immortalized.
Amundsen went with 52 dogs and came back with 11. This book is an analytical account of how explorer roald amundsen used sledge dogs to discover the south pole in 1911. Southern aeronautical waypoints named in their honour.
But amundsen had a more cynical side. The names of the many great antarctic explorers of the heroic age are well known widely documented and duly remembered the feats of amundsen scott shackleton worsley crean and wild to mention but a few still evoke passion admiration pride and indeed much discussion and debate. The advantage of the sledge dog is its greater mobility.
Furthermore when sledge dogs are given insufficient food they become difficult to handle. The book traces the dogs from their origins in greenland to antarctica and beyond and presents the author s. Amundsen and the arctic pioneer fridtjof nansen were passionate advocates and thought the british explorers had misunderstood how to employ dogs in the polar regions.
In hindsight and since he won they have consistently praised amundsen for using dogs exclusively and criticised scott for not doing the same. When ever a dog became tired or troublesome he would kill and share the dog meat between the other dogs. Amundsen could see that the dogs were exhausted.
What scott did not realise is a sledge dog if it is to do the same work as a man will require the same amount of food.
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