| AMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer, first man to reach the South Pole (8) |
| HILLARY | Edmund ___, New Zealand explorer; first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest (7) |
| ROALD | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first man to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| ROALDAMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first person to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| SCOTT | WWT Slimbridge founder who designed the WWF panda logo and created the IUCN red list; an Olympic sailing medallist whose father died attempting to be the first to reach the South Pole (5) |
| MCKENZIE | First white man to reach BC by land |
| SQUIRMER | Twister entitled man to reach round gentleman's bottom (8) |
| MERIDIAN | Imaginary line from the North Pole to the South Pole (8) |
| TARMACADAM | Car mat adjusted by first man to reach the surface (10) |
| NANSEN | Fridtjof, Norwegian explorer who tried to reach the North Pole on the ship Fram in the 1890s (6) |
| SHACKLETON | Ernest, Anglo-Irish naval officer and explorer who attempted to reach the South Pole (10) |
| ANTIPODE | The North Pole vis-a-vis the South Pole, e.g. |
| FERGUSON | Brand of tractor driven to the South Pole by Sir Edmund Hillary in 1958 (8) |
| ADAM | First man to reach a barrier (4) |
| GREATBELZONI | In 1817, this collector of antiquities and explorer first set foot inside the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, where he discovered Seti's sarcophagus. He was known by many epithets, but the |
| SEMESTER | See the way through the terms to reach the half-year course (8) |
| UMBERTONOBILE | Who, with the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth of the US, flew over the North Pole in 1926, completing the flight from Europe to North America? (7,6) |
| PINNACLE | First lieutenant in a boat to reach the peak (8) |
| APPROACH | In golf, a shot from the fairway designed to reach the putting green (8) |
| CROSSBOW | Weapon to reach the other side of the arch (8) |
