Roald Amundsen

Further refinements followed after Norwegian outdoorsman Ole F. Ber- Bergan added a curved metal frame to a backpack in 1909.

His country's armed forces adopted the, his packs, and the legendary Norwegian explorer and mountaineer Roald Amundsen took one on a South Pole expedition.

Lloyd F. Nelson drew inspiration from the packs carried by Inuit he encountered while hiking across Alaska to stake a land claim.

In 1922, he crafted the original Trapper Nelson, a canvas bag with a detachable wood frame and steel pins.

The modern backpack began to take its true shape in the 1930s after Gerry Cunningham, a mountaineer who went on to serve with the 10th Mountain Division, added zippered compartments for easy access while rock climbing.

Cunningham switched to manufacturing nylon models in 1967.

Then that same year, Murray McMurray established JanSport with his girlfriend, Jan Lewis, offering nylon packs with lightweight aluminum frames.

The skiing and mountaineering packs proved popular with college students looking for a way to keep their books dry in rainy Seattle, where JanSport had shut up-- set up shop.

In 1897, there was the Belgian Antarctic Expedition led by Adrien de Gerlache.

The crew was multinational and included the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.

What distinguished the Belgian expedition compared to many earlier expeditions is that the aims were primarily scientific.

The plan was to explore unmapped regions of the Antarctic Peninsula and to gather data and specimens.

In 1911, there were a few major expeditions taking place in Antarctica.

Two of these expeditions turned into a race.

One team was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, who had also taken part in the Belgian expedition of 1897.

The other expedition was known as the Terra Nova.

Probably somebody, I'll take a Norwegian.

Since I'm here in Norway, I'll take Roald Amundsen.

He's an explorer.

The first man who made it to the South Pole and also spent a long time trying to find the Northwest Passage.

So I think for a lot of people, you know, you wouldn't perhaps necessarily think of China as being one of the drivers for early Antarctic exploration, but China is part of the early history of Antarctic exploration.

The race to the South Pole between Scott and Amundsen, Japan was also part of that race.

So Captain Nobu Shirosei also attempted to reach the South Pole.

That's also another piece of history that I think is overlooked and forgotten.

Further refinements followed after Norwegian outdoorsman Ole F. Ber- Bergan added a curved metal frame to a backpack in 1909.

His country's armed forces adopted the, his packs, and the legendary Norwegian explorer and mountaineer Roald Amundsen took one on a South Pole expedition.

Lloyd F. Nelson drew inspiration from the packs carried by Inuit he encountered while hiking across Alaska to stake a land claim.

In 1922, he crafted the original Trapper Nelson, a canvas bag with a detachable wood frame and steel pins.

The modern backpack began to take its true shape in the 1930s after Gerry Cunningham, a mountaineer who went on to serve with the 10th Mountain Division, added zippered compartments for easy access while rock climbing.

Cunningham switched to manufacturing nylon models in 1967.

Then that same year, Murray McMurray established JanSport with his girlfriend, Jan Lewis, offering nylon packs with lightweight aluminum frames.

The skiing and mountaineering packs proved popular with college students looking for a way to keep their books dry in rainy Seattle, where JanSport had shut up-- set up shop.

Yeah, so Ernest Shackleton, not a flat earth conspiracy believer because he was looking for the South Pole.

But if you look it up on a map, there is a place called the Amundsen-Scott point where they have a big research station.

So that's named after a Norwegian guy, Amundsen, who was the Norwegian guy that got there before Scott.

So they all made it to the South Pole.

Scott never made it back, sadly.

But until we did this episode, I had never known...

the Edmondson guy's name like I didn't know the name of the guy who reached the South Pole I mean did you or you I do but

I'm a little weird weird with like history trivia like I'm the kind of guy who just you know instead of like scrolling through endless reels when you're sitting on the toilet with your phone I'm the kind of guy that actually likes scrolling through Wikipedia so I end up on some weird facts sometimes but I knew that it was this guy named Amundsen also because you have the Amundsen Scott Research Station which I had heard about yeah I've been dropped that I'm a

And then when he becomes truly an explorer, so he's on several other expeditions to Antarctica when there's a race to the pole, both as a member of Scott's team and then on his own.

And it's hard to recapture this time because these people like Scott and Shackleton, who gets knighted before all this, and Armisen, who's a Norwegian, there's a race to the polls.

Who's going to get to the South Pole first? And there are trading cards.

I mean, there are clubs.

So he comes into that and he's had several experiences which will bear heavily on this, which we can come back to in terms of his own development.

Yeah.

But on the expedition itself, Armisen has already made it to the pole.

Scott's already died from not being able to get back from the pole.