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Pretty much everyone during this period was an amateur compared to Amundsen.

Including the previously mentioned Nansen. Nansen was a generation earlier though, and among other things built the ship Amundsen used.

Amundsen made something difficult look easy. Everyone else made the difficult look - difficult. And survived.

Except for Scott who died.

There is an analogy there with software projects by the way, except for maybe the dying part replaced with general failure.



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