Børge Ousland
Børge Ousland( born 31 May 1962) is a Norwegian polar explorer, photographer and writer.
He was the first person in the world to do a solo crossing of the Antarctic.
He started his career as a Norwegian Navy Special Forces Officer with Marinejegerkommandoen, and he also spent several years working as a deep sea diver for the oil industry in the North Sea.
On 4 May 1990 Ousland and Erling Kagge became the first explorers ever to reach the North Pole unsupported, after a 58- day ski trek from Ellesmere Island in Canada, a distance of 800 km.
In 1994, he made the first solo and unsupported journey to the North Pole from Cape Arktichevsky in Russia.
Between 15 November 1996 and 17 January 1997 he became the first in the world to do an unsupported solo crossing of the Antarctic, 1,864 miles from the edge of the Ronne Ice Shelf to the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
The ski journey was made with kite assistance and also holds the record for the fastest unsupported journey to the South Pole taking just 34 days.
On 22 January 2006, together with Mike Horn he began a journey to the North Pole in full Arctic night, successfully concluded on 23 March.
In September 2010, Ousland's team aboard" The Northern Passage" completed the circumnavigation of the North Pole.
A Russian team aboard the" Peter I" achieved the same feat in that season.
These were the first recorded instances of the circumnavigation of the North Pole without an icebreaker.
In December 2011 he traversed Antarctica to the South Pole for the centennial celebration of the first expedition to reach the Pole.
Ousland married at the North Pole in 2012 having been flown in by helicopter with" 20 or 30 people".
North Pole (disambiguation)
North Pole may refer to:
Rio turbio (film)
Rio turbio is a 1952 Argentine film directed by Alejandro Wehner.
Robert Aldrich
Robert Burgess Aldrich( August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
His notable credits include" Vera Cruz"( 1954)," Kiss Me Deadly"( 1955)," The Big Knife"( 1955)," Autumn Leaves"( 1956)," Attack"( 1956)," What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"( 1962)," Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte"( 1964)," The Flight of the Phoenix"( 1965)," The Dirty Dozen"( 1967) and" The Longest Yard"( 1974).
Aldrich was portrayed by Alfred Molina in the television miniseries" Feud"( 2017).
Tshibinda Ilunga
Tshibinda Ilunga( born 17th century) was a Luba Prince and Emperor of the Lunda and their civilizing hero.
Alejandro Wehner
Alejandro Wehner was an Argentinian film director.
His work included Diez segundos( 1949), Rio turbio( 1951) and Fierro a fondo( 1952).
His first film," Diez segundos"( Ten Seconds), was based on Horacio Estol's 1946 book on the Argentinian boxer Luis Ángel Firpo.
The book was weak and Wehner was inexperienced, resulting in a disappointing film.
" Rio Turbio" is a melodrama about miners in the remote town of Rio Turbio, communicating a patriotic message about the New Argentina.
North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is( subject to the caveats explained below) defined as the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
The North Pole is the northernmost point on the Earth, lying diametrically opposite the South Pole.
It defines geodetic latitude 90 ° North, as well as the direction of true north.
At the North Pole all directions point south; all lines of longitude converge there, so its longitude can be defined as any degree value.
Along tight latitude circles, counterclockwise is east and clockwise is west.
The North Pole is at the center of the Northern Hemisphere.
The nearest land is usually said to be Kaffeklubben Island, off the northern coast of Greenland about away, though some perhaps semi-permanent gravel banks lie slightly closer.
The nearest permanently inhabited place is Alert in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, which is located from the Pole.
While the South Pole lies on a continental land mass, the North Pole is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean amid waters that are almost permanently covered with constantly shifting sea ice.
The sea depth at the North Pole has been measured at by the Russian Mir submersible in 2007 and at by USS" Nautilus" in 1958.
This makes it impractical to construct a permanent station at the North Pole( unlike the South Pole).
However, the Soviet Union, and later Russia, constructed a number of manned drifting stations on a generally annual basis since 1937, some of which have passed over or very close to the Pole.
Since 2002, the Russians have also annually established a base, Barneo, close to the Pole.
This operates for a few weeks during early spring.
Studies in the 2000s predicted that the North Pole may become seasonally ice- free because of Arctic ice shrinkage, with timescales varying from 2016 to the late 21st century or later.
Attempts to reach the North Pole began in the late 19th century, with the record for" Farthest North" being surpassed on numerous occasions.
The first undisputed expedition to reach the North Pole was that of the airship" Norge", which overflew the area in 1926 with 16 men on board, including expedition leader Roald Amundsen.
Three prior expeditions – led by Frederick Cook( 1908, land), Robert Peary( 1909, land) and Richard E. Byrd( 1926, aerial) – were once also accepted as having reached the Pole.
However, in each case later analysis of expedition data has cast doubt upon the accuracy of their claims.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.
Emperor of the North Pole
Emperor of the North Pole is a 1973 American DeLuxe Color film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine.
It was later re-released on home media( and is more widely known) under the shorter title Emperor of the North, ostensibly chosen by studio executives to avoid being mistaken for a heartwarming holiday story.
This original title is an homage to the historic joke among Great Depression- era hobos that the world's best hobo was" Emperor of the North Pole", a way of poking fun at their own desperate situation, since somebody ruling over the North Pole would reign over nothing but a vast, barren, cold, empty, and stark wasteland.
The film depicts the story of two hobos' struggle( esp. vs." The Establishment") during the US' Great Depression in 1930s Oregon.
Its screenplay is quite significantly inspired by three separate, yet inter-related self- published seminal writings from earlier decades:
Jack London's better- known 1907 travel memoir," The Road", and, two lesser- known books, both by legendary hobo" A- No.- 1", pen-name of Leon Ray Livingston," The Trail of the Tramp", and his 1917 travelogue," From Coast to Coast with Jack London".
Carradine's character, Cigaret, uses the moniker that Jack London used during his hobo escapades, and like London, is portrayed as a young traveling companion to the older Livingston's A- No.- 1( played by Marvin), but that is where( some assert) the similarity between Carradine's character and Jack London ends, as Cigaret is portrayed in the film as immature, loud- mouthed, and not bright, opposite A- No.- 1's gracious and graceful seasoned veteran.
Dmitry Shparo
Dmitry Shparo( born August 23, 1941) is a Russian Arctic explorer and endurance skier.
He is internationally known for twice reaching the North Pole on snow skis.
In 1979, Shparo led the first ski expedition from Eurasia to the North Pole.
In 1988, he completed a full traverse across the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Canada via the North Pole.
In 1998, Shparo and his son, Matvey, became the first people in modern times to ski across the Bering Strait, from Russia into North America.

Question: Do both directors of films Rio Turbio (Film) and Emperor Of The North Pole have the same nationality?
Answer: no