From Calum.
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On the 11th of July 1897, three Swedish explorers set out to do what no humans had done before: to reach the North Pole—and to do it not by ship or sled, but by air. But when they launched from a windswept arctic island, carried forth by the winds in an untested hydrogen balloon… they vanished.
On the face of it, their story is a classic tale of overenthusiastic folly: an attempt to fly over the Pole by balloon, using untested technology to reach a place few understood. How could they have been so foolish? So unprepared? But really, the line that separates the most successful explorers and Arctic pioneers from the greatest failures is vanishingly thin.
Andrée and his two colleagues disappeared in 1897, when their balloon carried them north from its launch point in Spitsbergen. They weren’t discovered until 1930, their ruined camp buried under layers of ice on a remote island in the Arctic Circle. But preserved with their bodies were the diaries, photographs, and records that allow us to piece together their story—in tragic detail.
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Main Sources:
Record of the Flight & Layout of Camp
Andree’s Story: The Complete Record (translated by Edwards Adams-Ray)
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(US) https://amzn.to/3H06EoB
Uusma’s Theory regarding their deaths:
The Expedition (A Love Story) by Bea Uusma
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(US) https://amzn.to/3UFYPrc
Other Sources:
The Flight of the Eagle by Olof Sundman
With the eagle Towards the Pole (Med Oren Mot Polen) by Prof. Nils Lithberg
Andrée’s Balloon Expedition in Search of the North Pole by by Lachambre And Machuron
Copyright Free original photographs from the expedition from Sweden’s Digitalmuseum service: https://digitaltmuseum.org
00:00 – A Grisly Discovery
03:50 – Danes Island, July 1897
09:22 – London Geographical Society, February 1895
14:15 – Thank You Odoo (feat: my baby)
16:25 – The Formation of an Expedition
20:53 – Planning an Expedition
21:38 – The Balloon
25:09 – The First Attempt
28:00 – An Unexpected Visitor
30:17 – Danes Island, July 11th, 1897
37:36 – In the Air
45:50 – On the Ice
55:55 – The End
59:57 – How Did the Men Die?
1:12:03 – The Mystery
1:14:23 – Anna
