Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Who Really Got to the North Pole First?" video.

6:08 "This guy". I wish you had said "This Norwegian guy" because small countries like Norway gets forgotten among all the big countries and their empires all to often. And he's a pretty big deal to us. Also, we reached the south pole first because news arrived about the north pole being reached while the guy that reached the south pole was preparing a expedition to the north pole, so change of plans, suddenly he was going southwards instead. So yeah, we can't compete with literal empires in military might. But when it comes to traverse arctic landscapes we're every bit as though as them, if not more so. So we did our best to complete for the poles etc. And today we're competing in every skiing sports for similar reasons. A undercurrent here is actually defense. As in "we might not have the army sizes, but the troops we do have are tougher than yours up here" kind of thing.
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