| SOUTHPOLE | The first humans to reach this extreme destination were Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his party on De |
| HILLARY | One of the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest (7) |
| NORSE | Name of the airship in which Roald Amundsen and his crew made a crossing of the Arctic in 1926 (5) |
| CREW | Captain and his party |
| AMUNDSEN | Explorer who, with his crew of four men and 16 remaining dogs out of a pack of 52, became the first human to reach the South Pole (8) |
| NORGAY | Sherpa mountaineer born Namgyal Wangdi who, with teammate Edmund Hillary, was the first human to reach the summit of Mount Everest (6) |
| 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) |
| BUZZALDRIN | Lunar module pilot on the Apollo 11 mission and one of the first two humans to land on the moon: 2 wds. |
| EDEN | Where the first humans were, according to the Bible |
| APOLLO | NASA space programme which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon (6) |
| SCOTT | Naval officer and explorer who was beaten by Roald Amundsen in an attempt to be the first man to rea |
| NORTHWESTPASSAGE | Sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific first successfully navigated by Roald Amundsen in the early 20th century |
| ARC | You need to use an underground tunnel to reach this Paris monument standing on an island amid quite unbelievable traffic, the ... de Triomphe |
| ARMSTRONG | Neil ---, US astronaut who became the first human to walk on the moon in 1969 (9) |
| GAGARIN | Yuri -; the first human to travel into space and to orbit Earth (7) |
| ABEL | According to the book of Genesis, the first human to die (4) |
| ADAMANDEVE | The first humans |
| NORWAY | With the capital Oslo, birth country of Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Grieg and Roald Amundsen (6) |
| ALEXEILEONOV | Soviet cosmonaut who was the first human to conduct a spacewalk (6,6) |
| NOBILE | Umberto -; designer of the airship Norge which he piloted over the North Pole in an expedition led by Roald Amundsen in 1926 (6) |
