Forty years ago, a team — led by two Minnesotans — set out on a journey that ended with them making history at the top of the world. "The North Pole had never been done unsupported... Everyone said ...

Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both claimed they discovered the North Pole. AGIP / Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York On September 7, 1909, readers of the New York Times awakened to ...

“The history of the many attempts to reach the North Pole,” Norwegian author and adventurer Erling Kagge writes, “is also the history of how illusions of a frozen wasteland can lure people to their ...

There is quite the debate about who reached the North Pole first, but there is no consensus according to Tara Ocean Foundation. Their website noted, “American explorer Richard E. Byrd led several ...