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No that honour goes to Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal, on May 29th. 1953.

Roald Amundsen was the first to reach the South Pole beating Robert Scott's team by a matter of days.
Wrong explorer - Roald Amundsen was in the antarctic and Sir Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the top of Mt Everest.
The South Pole, on December 14th 1911.

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