Aleksander Gamme

{{Short description|Norwegian adventurer}}

Aleksander Gamme (born July 23, 1976) is a Norwegian adventurer, polar explorer, researcher, author and public speaker.

In 2007, he climbed Mount Everest with Stian Voldmo. While he was there he worked on an interactive teaching project, "Hamar til Topps,” in which 1,000 Norwegian students in 6th and 7th grades participated. He took paper planes constructed by the students to the top of Everest and flew them from the summit.{{cite web|url=https://www.nrk.no/ho/nadde-mount-everest-i-natt-1.2460963 |publisher=NKR |title=Nådde Mount Everest i natt |date=15 May 2007 |accessdate=16 May 2018 |author=Linda Vespestad}} The project received ITU's creative prize.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}

In 2010, he and Erik Gran Kvaase became the first people to tandem bike across the Sahara. While there, they ran another teaching project as a follow-up to "Hamar til Topps".{{cite web|url=https://www.nrk.no/ho/pa-tandemsykkel-i-sahara-1.6963536 |publisher=NKR |title=På tandemsykkel i Sahara |date=26 January 2010 |accessdate=16 May 2018 |author=Linda Vespestad}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nordicworld.tv/ready-made/catalogue/1672 |title = To the South Pole and Back: Alone and Unaided |publisher=Nordic World |accessdate=16 May 2018}}

In 2011, he completed the first unsupported solo coast to coast hike across Antarctica, going from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole and back again, a trip that took 57 days to the pole and 87 days until he returned to the coast.{{cite web|title=Wilson, nå er vi framme!|url=http://gamme.no/x-blogg/entry/antarktis-2011-2012/wilsonnaerviframme|accessdate=2013-05-25|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130624120302/http://gamme.no/x-blogg/entry/antarktis-2011-2012/wilsonnaerviframme|archive-date=2013-06-24|url-status=dead}} He finished at the same time as a concurrent expedition by Cas and Jonesy, after waiting 4 days in his tent so he could join them for the final day. Together they were the first unsupported trips to the South Pole and back.{{cite book|title=Extreme South |author = James Castrission |isbn=9780733627989 |date=31 July 2012 |publisher=Hachette Australia}}

During the expedition he gained some media attention for a video of him happily finding some Cheese Doodles in a forgotten cache of food.{{cite web|url=https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/04/cheese-doodles-bring-happiness-after-wandering-the-south-pole-for-86-days/ |title=Cheese Doodles Bring Happiness After Wandering The South Pole For 86 Days |author=Jesus Diaz |date=April 2012 |publisher=Gizmodo |accessdate=16 May 2018}}