Having discovered the Northwest Paseage and the South Pole, having sailed through the Northeast Passage Amundsen could, if popu-jar achievement were his aim or the setting of records his ambition, yest on his laureles. When he at the age of 52 sets out for the already discovered North Pole on a seven years'
drift through the polar night, it is, I think, but fair to credit him with loftier aims than those of self-aggrandizement. He surely bears the marks of the true explorer for whom achievement itsdf is the goal and not the empty glory resulting from achievement. He is at his age fully aware that he may not return to share in the glory. It is therefore unkind, comfortably ensconced in one's office chair, to belittle the man who has spent his life in an arduous endeavour to enlarge knowledge and who, at 52, sets out for the second time to fulfil his life-task, Sor ta seek the realization of his boyhood's dream and the determined resolve of his manhood.
Amundsen has. through his character and through his achievements become @ national hero, without himself wishing this, and as a Norwegian
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