The first humans to reach the Geographic South Pole were Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his party on December 14,1911.Amundsen named his camp Polheim.Amundsen's main competitor Robert Falcon Scott reached the Pole a month later.On the return trip Scott and his four companions all died of hunger and extreme cold.There have been many expeditions to arrive at the South Pole by surface transportation.The leaders of some of the first of these are，in order：Amundsen，Scott，Hillary，Fuchs，Havola，Crary，Fiennes.US Admiral Richard Byrd，with the assistance of his first pilot Bernt Balchen，became the first person to fly over the South Pole on November 29,1929.