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Erling Kagge on his legendary expeditions: ‘If you had a happy childhood, it’s unlikely you will become a North Pole explorer’
Erling Kagge completed his record-breaking ‘three Poles’ expeditions by the 1990s. He explains why his new book on the history of the North Pole became more personal and why taking the easy ...
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Meet the first man to trek to Earth’s ‘three Poles’ – and survive
As Erling Kagge relates in his thrilling book, The North Pole, the world’s northernmost point has been a lifelong and nearly fatal obsession Where is the North Pole? On one level, the answer is ...
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The sexts of early explorers and using polar bears to pull sledges – Erling Kagge’s The North Pole is full of discoveries
In fact, Erling Kagge is even more qualified than that, as he later became the first person to complete the Three Poles Challenge, making it to the South Pole and the peak of Mount Everest, ...