Photos and videos

South Pole 1911-2011 presents a selection of images and video sequences – both historic and from the current expedition – as well as media clips.

Videos

  • Training i Punta Arenas

    Training i Punta Arenas

    23 October 2011: While waiting in Punta Arenas, we spend some of the time training.

  • Roald Amundsen’s trek to the South Pole

    Roald Amundsen’s trek to the South Pole

    Film sequences from Roald Amundsen’s 1911 expedition to the South Pole.

  • Ulvang's excursion to the South Pole

    Ulvang's excursion to the South Pole

    Vegard Ulvang, along with a historian, a researcher, and an adventurer, plans to retrace Roald Amundsen’s steps to the South Pole 100 years after the polar hero.

  • TV2: Øksfjordjøkelen

    TV2: Øksfjordjøkelen

    In late August 2010, the four expedition members went to Øksfjordjøkelen in Finnmark. Aired on Norwegian TV2 4 September 2010.

  • Vegard Ulvang's film from Øksfjordjøkelen

    Vegard Ulvang's film from Øksfjordjøkelen

    All Norwegians know that Vegard Ulvang is a good skier and an expert on wool, but what some don’t realize is that he’s also a talented filmmaker.

  • Glorious weather!

    Glorious weather!

    30 March 2011: What a day! Clear and cold and Svalbard at its very best. Our skis have borne us between magnificent mountains, across the glacier divide at Kongsvegspasset, skirted the slopes of Isrypene and down the glacier at Bardebreen.

  • Pretty cold, yeah!

    Pretty cold, yeah!

    31 March 2011: Yesterday we logged minus 24 degrees °C. That was the last exact measurement we had. Through a mishap, our thermometer had accompanied the television team snowmobiles back to Ny-Ålesund. But we can say one thing for sure – and we say it in unison – It’s colder now!

  • A day in the tent

    A day in the tent

    3 April 2011: The wind was gusting to storm force and it was hard to stand upright. The only thing to do was to stay lying down. We had arranged to be picked up by snowmobile at Fredheim on Sunday evening but the storm put a decisive stop to the last leg down to Sassenfjorden.

Photo galleries

  • The 1911 expedition to the South Pole

    The 1911 expedition to the South Pole

    Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole in 1911.

  • The West Coast or death

    The West Coast or death

    “The West Coast or death.” With these words, Fridtjof Nansen set off to cross the Greenland in 1888. “The West Coast or the emergency beacon” is what Stein P Aasheim said when he and his comrades followed in Nansen’s footsteps 100 years later, equipped with replicas of the gear used by the old heroes.

  • The Norwegian-American Antarctic Traverse 2007-2009

    The Norwegian-American Antarctic Traverse 2007-2009

    The expedition went from the Norwegian Antarctic Station Troll, through the vast Antarctic inland, places no human had been before, to the South Pole. Jan-Gunnar led the expedition.

  • Øksfjordjøkelen

    Øksfjordjøkelen

    The last weekend of August 2010 we traversed a glacier, Øksfjordjøkelen, in Finnmark. It was a marvelous experience.

  • Stein's skiing adventures

    Stein's skiing adventures

    Glimpses from Stein’s (and Vegard’s) many ski trips.