Dimensions
184 x 267 x 14mm
In 1897, a Swede, Salomon Andree, took off in a balloon flight over the North pole and disappeared. In 1930, the remains of his camp was found on a remote island. In 1925, Amundsen, the Antarctic explorer, and his copilot, Ellsworth, tried to take two planes to the arctic, but ended with a crash on the ice. They made it back to safety by stamping out an ice runway under terrible conditions. Australian Herbert Wilkins wanted to fly from Alaska over the pole to Norway. Near the end of the flight, he had to make a forced landing, and Wilkins was twice almost left behind on the ice.
These, and many other crazy, daring fliers confronted the northern expanses, and the snow, the fog and the cold, in balloons, dirigibles and early planes to try to conquer the arctic unknown.
