In 1925, accompanied by Lincoln Ellsworth, pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, and three other team members. Amundsen took two Dornier Do J flying boats, the N-24 and N-25 to 87° 44′ north. It was the northernmost latitude reached by plane up to that time. The planes landed a few miles apart without radio contact.
Yet the crews managed to reunite. One of the aircraft, the N-24 was damaged.
Amundsen and his crew worked for over three weeks to clean up an airstrip to take off from ice. They shovelled 600 tons of ice while consuming only one pound (400 g) of daily food rations. In the end, six crew members were packed into the N-25.
In a remarkable feat, Riiser-Larsen took off, and they barely became airborne over the cracking ice.
They returned triumphant when everyone thought they had been lost forever.
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