Amundsen

I can't feel my legs!

Don't think about that. It will be ok.

We're almost there, you know.

Based on real people and occurrences

Leave what you have stolen and get lost.

Get out!

- Who are you? - Who are you?

I'm sorry. I am...

- Roalds brother. - Is that so?

I am Leon.

Sorry!

No. I didn't think there was anybody here.

I didn't realize...

Bess Magids.

I arrived yesterday.

Clearly he didn't mention me, then?

No.

I'm...

Sorry for the interruption.

- You can go back to bed again. - No, that's quite allright.

I can't sleep.

Probably still on Canada-time.

How do you know my brother?

We have known each other a couple of years now.

You haven't-

heard anything new, by chance?

No.

I know I've seen a bottle of wine around here.

I prefer Whiskey, personally, but this is better than nothing.

He was going to fly over the North pole and get back in time to meet me here.

Instead it was Wisting-

who received me.

Wisting is a good man.

He seemed more concerned than we are.

Yes.

It is strange to look at you.

How so?

Sorry.

In the beginning I did not think you two looked alike, but now...

He didn't mention me?

Well...

He said he had many brothers.

- But he hasn't talked about me. - No, but...

We don't talk about family and such.

But he talked about the expeditions?

About the Northwest Passage and the South Pole.

Of course.

But not about me?

No, but...

You weren't in the expeditions.

No.

Roald and I don't speak.

- It's been a few years since last time. - Really? What happened?

I'm sorry. You don't have to answer that.

It's ok.

We were four brothers, but it was mostly just Roald and I.

Did Roald mention our father?

He owned ships, or something like it. And was an... adventurer?

Not exactly an adventurer.

But he always came home with the nicest gifts.

I remember when he brought that globe.

What is that in the middle, there?

That's where the air is let in to the flame.

No what is there?

In reality, in the world.

Nobody knows. Nobody have traveled that far north.

Some people believe-

that there is a land there.

Which hasn't been discovered yet.

Roald continued to stare at the holes by the poles.

Everything else had been charted.

Those holes, -

those areas, -

was everything that remained to discover.

Roald became obsessed by the poles.

Look! Four degrees!

He started experimenting with arctic conditions.

Good night.

And now, you.

- Just a little bit more? - No, you can read more tomorrow.

Good night, Roald.

Father died at sea.

Thousands of miles away from home.

And mother fell ill a few years later.

Leon, you have to watch over your brother.

You're the big brother, you have to take care of Roald.

When Fridtjof Nansen came home victorious, -

as the first to cross Greenland by skies, -

nothing could stop us.

After that day Roald and I knew exactly what we were going to be.

Our first great test was a trip on the Hardanger plain.

The wind increased to a storm.

I walked in a circle all night.

But in the morning Roald was gone.

Roald!

Instead of going in a circle, he had dug himself a snow cave.

But the temperature had dropped, so he woke in a sarcophagus of ice.

Roald!

Roald!

Roald!

Hold on!

His reaction made me realize-

that he had something that I didn't.

I didn't know what.

Only that I undisputedly did not have it.

You saved his life.

I'm just waiting for him to walk through that door.

Go on, please.

It does me good to hear you speak.

- Northwest Passage? - Yes.

Roald was aboard the first ship that spent the winter in the Antarctic.

After that he had this insane idea.

To use a small fishing vessel, where the great British ships had failed.

You didn't go along?

No, no.

I stayed at home to organize the financial support.

Roald went to face the ice.

And you, the lenders.

The first one to sail through the last part of the Northwest Passage.

The promising, young Norwegian discoverer-

Roald Amundsen!

Thank you. It is...

Thank you.

It is...

It is a great honor to be here.

Thank you.

I would also like to thank you, Dr. Nansen.

I would not be here today-

without your good advice and support. Thank you.

During our search for the Northwest Passage-

we spent two winters in a small, completely isolated port-

called Uqsuqtuuq.

We called the place Gjøahavn

A little easier to prononounce.

And here we got the opportunity to meet-

and study the netsilik-inuites.

They imparted upon us invaluable knowledge-

on how to survive arctic conditions.

They move efficiently across the ice using light sleighs-

and polar dogs.

And this method-

was deciding for us-

when we explored the area.

The life of the Netsilikes-

is clearly unique and very specialized.

And they are now among the last natives-

who haven't been in touch with missionaries from the south.

Just wait!

It is...

I have heard a lot of strange things-

about the inuites

That they are lazy, for instance.

They are not lazy.

They are smart. They know that stress causes you to sweat.

And if you're sweating in low temperatures, you may die.

Roald had learned survival techniques from the inuites.

And so our dream was to be fulfilled: To be the first to reach the North Pole.

But the brits did not take these survival-ideas seriously.

Even as they were planning their own expedition.

That was a very well executed lecture, Amundsen.

The English are sceptical to the Greenland Dogs.

They prefer setters.

Mr. Scott!

- Old friend. How are you doing? - Good to see you.

- I assume you two have met? - No.

Roald Amundsen, this is Robert Falcon Scott.

A pleasure.

And congratulations. I am... mightily impressed.

The pleasure is all mine.

The stories of the British explorers-

changed my life. John Franklin, for instance.

It was the British that paved the way for us.

But somebody had to take the last step.

In that tiny little fishing boat.

- Who would have thought it? - She was weary in the end.

And you?

Ambassador Nansen?

I expect you are ready to travel again?

Are you going to one of the poles?

Which one will it be?

North or South?

I'm still caught up in diplomacy.

Of course.

There are more important things than exploring ice.

Gentlemen...

A true pleasure.

Do you think he's going north or south?

The most important thing to research-

in the arctic realm is not who comes first, -

but the exploration of the polar basin's reach, depth and character.

They are planning expeditions, all of them.

We don't have a lot of time.

If we are to manage 3000 km in 100 days we have to reduce weight and increase speed.

And the english have motor vehicles. Scott has tested up at Finse.

And I believe in Polar Bears as a beast of burden.

That does not mean I'm going for it in this context.

Only one thing is sufficiently tested and tried for something like this.

That is Greenland Dogs.

Many Greenland Dogs.

Suddenly Nansen's wife fell ill.