#cook and amundsen

[suddenly-frankenstein]

thinking about this every single day.

Amundsen visiting Cook in prison.

GRRRR grrrr GrRrGGr im So NORMal AbOuT ThiS

[irenydraws]

congratulations lil buddy that's the worst anyone's ever drawn it

[source: roald amundsen's belgica diary]

[north-pole-picture-co]

Feeling totally normal about this

[The New York Times, Thursday, March 4, 1926]

[polarship]

he was the sun

[roaldamundsen]

found the original

roald amundsen, a biography by tor bomann-larsen

[evergreensounds]

seasons greetings from Cook and Amundsen and their two beautiful children

Mutuals and longtime followers hmu if you want me to send you a physical one!

[johntorrington]

one thing about antarctic exploration is that there will always be three men in a tent. with various consequences.

[antarcticconfessions]

"i would give fred cook my life savings. this isn't a thirst confession i'm just bad with money"

[incesthemes]

belgica crew getting depressed over not being able to have sex while stuck in the pack, meanwhile cook and amundsen are fine and immune to polar night depression on account of having reinvented homosexuality

[jeyneofpoole]

when a man embarks on a quest for the northwest passage he decides between finding the passage or the prostate and that’s why it took so long 🙏 rip the franklin expedition 🙏 and also that’s why roald did it so good it was because, hand to god, that man is a sadomasochistic giver not a receiver aaaaaand post! and post.

[amundsenxcook]

always thinking about cookmundsen prison era

literally always thinking about amundsen turning on most every person in his life as he got older, becoming more paranoid and closed off and mistrusting. thinking about him sinking into his debts and being cast aside and becoming so depressed, he describes it as the lowest point of his life.

thinking about amundsen in an american hotel picking up pen and paper and writing a letter to a friend. and even though that friend is in prison, he is still a friend. even though the press had defamed him, even though the law had persecuted him. or maybe because of it – fred cook was roald amundsens friend.

thinking about fred refusing to see visitors, being ashamed of his status and situation, not wanting to see his ex wife or family or anyone.

thinking about fred agreeing to see amundsen.

thinking about amundsen never doubting or badmouthing fred. thinking about fred never envying amundsen. no rivalry, no jealousy, no resentment between the heroes of north and south. (one each.)

thinking about amundsen saying that he would have gone to visit fred even if fred had committed crimes much worse than the ones he was imprisoned for. thinking about amundsen not even knowing what fred did. thinking about amundsen not caring.

thinking about the gifts. a book and an embroidered tablecloth, both crafted in prison. thinking about the tablecloth being displayed in amundsens reception room, where anyone who’d come to visit would see it. thinking about it still lying there today.

thinking about hands clasped tightly. thinking about fred inventing words of comfort and love exchanged between them.

thinking about “come and see me again, captain, won’t you?” and thinking about “i certainly will, doctor.”

[coldfruitwater]

guess where i just was!!!!!

[irenydraws]

my "made it to the north pole" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

[north-pole-picture-co]

Lord have mercy on the frozen man.

The New York Times, 29 September 1935

[fullcolorfright]

Sketch collage inspired by the 1897-1899 Belgian Antarctic Expedition, after reading Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Julian Sancton, 2021) and My Life as an Explorer (Roald Amundsen, 1927)

[roaldamundsen]

this happened julian sancton told me