"Exploring Extremes"

When (and by whom) was the South Pole reached by an

On November 1912, the tent of Captain Robert Scott and his two companions found the body of Captain Scott wedged between those of his fellow explorers, the flaps of his sleeping bag thrown back, his coat open. His companions Henry Bowers and Dr. Edwards Wilson, were the last members of a fiveman team returning to their home base from the Pole.

0http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/scott.htm

When (and by whom) was the north pole?

On April 6, 1909. Commander Robert Edwing Perary, a civil engineer in the US Navy, claimed to have completed the journey in just 53 days. But he let alone a man that loosed 8 of his toes due to frostbite on previous expeditions, and for this reasons many believe that the first person to reach the north pole was Yorkshireman

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life/_and_syle/women/the_way_we_live/article6040069.ece

Who led an Expedition to summit Everest in 1924 and what happened to him? when was the summit finally reached for the first (documented) time?

George Mallory was the mountaneer who tried to reach the top of the Everest Mountain in 1924, it was his third attempt and he dissapear, in 1999 Mallory's body was found but clues did not provide conclussive evidence as to whether the summit was reached.

In 1985 Oscar Cadiach was the first person to climb the Mount Everest.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/British_Mount_Everest_Expedition_1924

I think people did it to prove that the humans can complete their goals, and that they wanted to test the human capacity for this kind of activities. Many people knows me, and they know that I'm too crazy, I would do something like this to prove people that everyone can do it, but I'm not too crazy to put my life on risk, so what I want to say is, NOOOOOOOOO