Forgotten Pioneer Pilot

摘要

Robert F. Scott saw great potential in 21-year-old ski expert Tryggve Gran, who accompanied him to Antarctica in 1910. But the polar explorer was by no means blind to the youthful Norwegian's faults, commenting: "...the boy has a certain amount of intelligence and a great fund of good nature under his thick crust of vanity. If the last can be transpierced, we can find uses for the better qualities." Gran would go on to become one of Norway's aviation pioneers, but his "thick crust of vanity" would ultimately obscure his aerial achievements.