Sverre Hassel

Sverre Helge Hassel ( born July 30, 1876 in Christiania (now Oslo), † June 6, 1928 ) was a Norwegian polar explorer.

Life

Sverre Hassel was born in Oslo. As soon as he was old enough, he went to sea and acquired inter alia, the helmsman patent. He took from 1898 to 1902 at the direction of Otto Sverdrup Second Norwegian Fram expedition in part, led to the discovery of the Sverdrup Islands.

Together with Helmer Hanssen Hassel was selected as a good skier, sailor and experienced dog handlers to participate in Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition 1910-1912. On December 14, 1911, he reached Amundsen, Hanssen, Olav Bjaaland and Oscar Wisting first time the pole. The exhausting skiing with five slides and initially 52 and after 99 days when returning to the base camp 11 Greenland dogs led about 3,000 km to the South Pole and back.

More tours with Amundsen he was then no longer do, but withdrew before the civil service. He lived in Kristiansand and Grimstad and later worked as a senior customs official. Sverre Hassel died in 1928 of heart failure in the garden Roald Amundsen, the crash itself twelve days later on a polar rescue flight by plane and remained missing.