Amundsen Dogs
In hindsight and since he won they have consistently praised amundsen for using dogs exclusively and criticised scott for not doing the same.
Amundsen dogs. The party turned for home and with light sledges travelled swiftly to reach framheim on 22 march. But amundsen had a more cynical side. Amundsen pointed to their successes in the northern hemisphere and the relative ease of handling dogs compared with ponies especially in heavily crevassed areas where a fallen. Amundsen and the arctic pioneer fridtjof nansen were passionate advocates and thought the british explorers had misunderstood how to employ dogs in the polar regions.
Amundsen helmer hanssen prestrud johansen and wisting then continued with the strongest dogs hoping to reach 83 s but in difficult conditions they halted at 82 s on 8 march. The names of the many great antarctic explorers of the heroic age are well known widely documented and duly remembered the feats of amundsen scott shackleton worsley crean and wild to mention but a few still evoke passion admiration pride and indeed much discussion and debate. Scott s ponies and amundsen s dogs immortalized. It explores the strategy methodology and personal insights of the explorer and his crew in employing animals to achieve their goal.
The book traces the dogs from their origins in greenland to antarctica and beyond and presents the author s. This book is an analytical account of how explorer roald amundsen used sledge dogs to discover the south pole in 1911. This book is an analytical account of how roald amundsen used sledge dogs to discover the south pole in 1911 and is the first to name and identify all 116 polar dogs who were part of the norwegian antarctic expedition of 1910 1912. Amundsen went with 52 dogs and came back with 11.
All 116 dogs are identified individually. The advantage of the sledge dog is its greater mobility. What scott did not realise is a sledge dog if it is to do the same work as a man will require the same amount of food. When ever a dog became tired or troublesome he would kill and share the dog meat between the other dogs.
Amundsen could see that the dogs were exhausted. Southern aeronautical waypoints named in their honour.