It wasn't an official competition or anything like that. He just wanted to be the very first man to set foot on that spot, to plant the flag for King and Country out of a good sense of British pride, what? But the Norwegians got there a few weeks before he did. Or was it the Swedes? It was someone or another of Viking decent. They are compulsive travellers, you know. I suspect that Jeeves' ancestors were Vikings; he's always hot to go biffing off to some foreign country or another. The travel is in his blood.