Adrift on the Arctic Ocean in the midst of the dark polar winter, Fridtjof Nansen faced a dilemma. A year and a half earlier, the 33-year-old explorer had set sail from Norway on his polar ship, the ...

One hundred years ago, Fridtjof Nansen – a Norwegian humanitarian, explorer, diplomat and scientist – won the Nobel Peace Prize. In its citation, the selection committee commended Nansen “for his ...

The visitor to Oslo can still see with his own eyes that strange ship, the "Fram", now resting on solid Norwegian soil, in which on the 21st of July 1893 Fridtjof Nansen with a crew of thirteen ...