They had lost the race to the South Pole to Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen ... King George V led a huge memorial service in St. Paul's Cathedral soon afterward.
Late on Monday night, in the bright sunlit tundra of the South Pole, another record is broken as 21-year-old Norwegian Karen Kyllesø stepped past the line of national flags and stood next to the ...
The team of four women - Ann Bancroft, Sunniva Sorby, Sue Giller, Anne Dal Vera - at the South Pole in 1993. On this day (January 14, 1993), four women arrived on skis at the South Pole.