Page:Longines Chronicles with Bernt Balkin 1954 ARC-96011.ogv/4

Colonel Bernt Balchen
I consider the South Pole a greater achievement than my many later visits to the North Pole, because it culminated two and a half years of intense work and planning together with Admiral Byrd to achieve the flight to the South Pole in 1929. In comparison there equipment and the techniques we had at that time and now, I consider it a greater achievement as far as achieving the flight across the Pole.