Frozen footsteps
What's on TV|September 30, 2023
Ben Fogle re-creates the famous race to reach the South Pole over 110 years ago...
IAN MACEWAN
Frozen footsteps

ENDURANCE: RACE TO THE POLE

Monday, 9pm, Channel 5 Factual

When adventurer Ben Fogle raced to the South Pole with rower James Cracknell back in 2009, they were beaten by a rival Norwegian team, which was exactly the same fate that befell Robert Falcon Scott nearly a century earlier when he arrived at the Pole, only to discover Norway's Roald Amundsen had got their first.

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