1925 To 88 degrees north
Personal equipment
Rucksack with:
- Sleeping bag
- 1 change of underwear (shirt, wool trousers, one pair of socks, and one pair of ragg socks)
- Compass
- Matches in watertight bag
- Mechanical firelighter
- Snow goggles
- Sewing kit (housewife)
- One cup and one spoon
- Ski boots and one pair of boots of own choice
- 1 pair skis, 1 pair ski poles and 1 harness for hauling sledges, 1 knife
- They could also take up to 2 kilos in total of such things as tobacco, pipe, diary, headwear or other personal items
One of the watertight bags used for matches. Photo: Follo museum, MiA / Private owner.
The expedition’s mascots, a monkey and a cat. Dietrichson stashed the monkey under his jacket when they were about to take off from the ice, fearing that he wouldn’t otherwise get it home. Photo: Norwegian Polar Institute / National Library of Norway.
Sources:
Amundsen, Roald, and others: Our Polar flight : the Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar flight, 1925 📜.
Roald Amundsen’s equipment list for the polar flight : a note from the expedition diary [In Norwegian] 📜.
1872
Roald Amundsen born July 16
1880
Starts at Otto Andersen’s School
1886
Jens Engebreth Amundsen dies
1887 – 1889
Polar interest aroused
1893
Gustava Amundsen (née. Sahlqvist) dies
1893
Mountain ski tour with Urdahl and Holst
1894
Hunting in Arctic waters with the Magdalena
1895
Ship’s Officer’s exam
1896
Hardangervidda with Leon
1897 – 1899
Belgica expedition
1899
Cycling from Christiania to Paris
1900
Studying geomagnetism in Hamburg
1903 – 1906
Gjøa expedition
1907
Polar bears as draft animals
1908
Amundsen buys Uranienborg
1909
The North Pole reached?
1910 – 1912
Fram expedition
1914
Amundsen becomes a pilot
1916 – 1917
The polar ship Maud is being built
1922
Nita and Camilla move in
1923
Uranienborg for sale
1924
Amundsen goes bankrupt
1925
1925 To 88 degrees north. Personal equipment
1927
Lecture tour in Japan
1934 – 1935
Uranienborg becomes a museum
1938
Betty’s house burns down
2015
A chest full of photographs is discovered
2020
Roald Amundsen’s home goes digital