Chile Things to Do

On December 14, 1911, mankind conquered—well, at least planted a flag—atop the South Pole, one of the world’s last truly wild places. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen won the deadly race across the icy Antarctica to the Pole, thanks to Inuit technology (furs, sleds, and dogs) he’d adopted. His rival, British naval officer Robert Scott, never returned to civilization.