Oct 13, 2026
“We all have a Land of Beyond to seek in our life—what more can we ask?” — Fridtjof Nansen | Quote of the Day
Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian explorer who made the first crossing of Greenland’s interior on skis, came closer to the North Pole than anyone then alive, and then won the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize for repatriating 427,886 prisoners of war and housing the displaced of post-war Europe — on the “Land of Beyond” he told the students of St Andrews every life is built to seek, from his Rectoral Address of 1926.