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Have you ever gazed in wonder at the Great Pyramid?

Have you marvelled at the golden face of Tudankhamun?

Or admired the delicate features of Queen Nefertiti?

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be the final episode in the series, but that is wrong. There will be one more after this. There's

just so much to tell you, so there will be a tenth episode. Today we take Amundsen on his next

great adventure, an attempt to fly an airship over the North Pole.

Last time, we covered Amundsen's two attempts to fly in a plane across the Arctic.

They were both failures, but the second attempt was, what we like to call on this show,

a heroic failure.

Amundsen and his team had been stuck near the North Pole for a month and had barely made it back

to civilization.

Everyone thought Amundsen and his team were dead, but the Kagey Viking had come roaring back to the

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