Peary and Henson had one more shot at the North Pole in them. With their trusted Inughuit partners in Greenland, they spent months in the Arctic preparing for their dash to the Pole in spring 1909. And after traveling over hundreds of miles of dangerous ice, they believed they had reached their goal: They were the first men to stand at the top of the world. Or were they? Before Peary could claim his laurels, another explorer declared that he had conquered the Pole almost a year before Peary. Henson would help establish Peary’s preeminence. But whom would the world believe?
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02/19/21 • 44 min
Mental Floss Presents: The Quest for the North Pole - Third Time’s the Charm
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The Quest for the North Pole is a production of I Heart Radio and Mental Floss. It's April six and Robert E. Peary and his assistant Matthew Henson are settling in at yet another camp during their third attempt to reach the North Pole. It's something they've done countless times during the course of their journeys together, but on this otherwise unremarkable stretch of ice, their once elusive goal is now within reach. As they and the new Wheat gu
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