The Race to the North Pole
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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April 6, 1909. Robert Peary leads an expedition to the Arctic and declares himself the first man to reach the North Pole. This episode originally aired in 2023.
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| 1:26.3 | It's the evening of July 11, 1891, in Melville Bay off the coast of Greenland. |
| 1:28.8 | 26-year-old surgeon Frederick Cook leans over the side of a steamship |
| 1:32.7 | marvels at its steel hull cutting through a layer of ice on the seawater. |
| 1:37.3 | Aside from the native tribes who live in the sparsely populated Arctic, |
| 1:41.0 | few people have ever been this far north. |
| 1:43.8 | But Frederick has a taste for |
| 1:45.3 | adventure. One month ago, he left his New York medical practice to join an expedition to the Arctic, |
| 1:51.1 | led by explorer Robert Perry. Now Frederick is helping map the wilderness of Greenland to discover |
| 1:56.9 | how far north the vast island reaches. But the journey is treacherous. |
| 2:02.9 | Frederick hears a shout and looks around to see a sailor |
| 2:05.6 | pointing to a large chunk of ice in the water. |
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