Tenzing summit

Timeline of Conquering the Cold (1900 - 1960)

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  • Robert Peary was born

  • Robert Scott was born

  • Roald Admundsen was born

  • Robert Peary made his first unsuccessful Arctic Expedition with dogs from Greenland

  • George Mallory was born

  • Amundsen - Belgian Antartic Expedition - Failed & Stranded off Alexander Island

    RV Belgica ice locked off Alexander Island

  • Robert Peary reaches the North Pole

    American Explorer from Pennsylvania

  • Admudsen reached the South Pole

  • Captain Scott reached the North Pole

  • Captain Scott died age 43

  • Edmund Hillary was born

  • Admiral Peary dies aged 63

  • Howard Somerville & Edward Norton reach 26,980 ft on Everest

    George Mallory on expedition to Everest led by Brigadier-General Charles Bruce.

  • George Mallory dies/Disappears aged 37

  • First "visit" to the North Pole - By Airship (R Amundsen & Umberto Nobile)

    First "visit" to the North Pole - By Airship (R Amundsen & Umberto Nobile)

    Italian airship designer and pilot Umberto Nobile took part in two flights over the North Pole, one in 1926 in the airship Norge and another in 1928 in the airship Italia. The Norge [meaning Norway] flight took place on May 11-14, 1926, and was a joint Norwegian-American-Italian venture. The co-leaders were the great Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, American adventurer Lincoln Ellsworth, and Italian Umberto Nobile, the airship's designer and pilot.

  • Amundsen - dissapears on recue mission in Arctic

    His team dies searching for Nobile's crew whose new airship, Italia, had crashed whilst returning from the North Pole. It is beleived he crashed in fog in the Barents Sea.

  • Hillary & Tenzing summit Everest

  • Hillary reaches the South Pole

  • Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole with Neil Armstrong

  • Edmund Hillary dies aged 88