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There have been countless Arctic expeditions featured on the channel.

They all generally start with grand ambitions, bold proclamations, and then inevitably disaster.

Time and time again, ships vanished into the ice resulting in the loss of some or all of the crew.

But this story is going to be a little bit different.

This wasn't an expedition that ended in total ruin. There was no catastrophic sinking, no matter of the crew. But this story is going to be a little bit different. This wasn't an expedition that ended in total ruin.

There was no catastrophic sinking, no mass starvation, and yet something happened on this

journey that would remain buried for over a century.

This would turn out to be a secret so disturbing that when it was finally uncovered in

the last 50 years, it completely rewrote the history of the expedition.

This wasn't just an Arctic mission gone wrong, it was something far more sinister.

As always, viewer discretion is advised.

The North Pole had long stood as one of the Earth's last great frontiers and an unclaimed

prize at the top of the world, and for good reason. It's an unforgiving place, to say the least,

a frozen void of shifting ice, howling winds, and unrelenting colds. The first serious attempt came in

1827 when Sir Edward Perry of the British Royal Navy set

it with sleds and boats hoping to reach the pole.

He would end up failing after being turned back by treacherous ice floats and the surprisingly

fast southward drift of the ice pack.

Over the next five decades, others would follow who were driven by the same ambition, willing

to risk everything for the sake of exploration.

The Americans took up the challenge, sending their own expeditions, beginning with Elijah Kent

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