Voyage to the North Pole | The Skeleton Pack | 4

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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It’s June 1881, and USS Jeannette has been crushed between ice floes and sunk to the bottom of the Arctic Sea. The crew now find themselves stranded on the ice, a thousand miles from Siberia, the nearest inhabited land. If they’re ever going to reach it, they’ll have to endure a brutal march over an inhospitable icescape.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to against the odds early in ad free right now.
0:05.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts. Captain George Delong tiptoes around the men sleeping inside his tent and grabs his sextant and a chart.
0:24.0	Then he lifts the tent flap, shielding his eyes from the blinding light as he slips out to take a reading of his
0:30.6	sun's position in the sky.
0:32.0	It's noon in the sky.
0:33.0	It's noon on June 26, 1881.
0:37.1	Eight days ago, the long ship,
0:39.2	U.S. Jeanette, sank after an iceberg punctured her hull. The crew abandoned ship and has been
0:45.8	marching south across the rugged Arctic ice ever since. Their destination is
0:50.6	Siberia, hundreds of miles away.
0:55.3	The sun never sets during the Arctic summer, so Delong has decided to travel at night.
1:01.4	The sun is lower in the sky den and cooler temperatures keep the ice beneath
1:05.6	them from breaking up. During the day they find a solid patch of ice, pitch their tents,
1:11.4	and then try to get some sleep.
1:13.0	But each day, Delong has been waking around noon and using his sextant to determine their latitude
1:19.5	and see how much progress they've made.
1:22.0	For the past few days the measurements have left him
1:25.6	deeply troubled. He's hoping today's readings will be more encouraging.
1:30.8	Positioning his sextant, he lines up its lenses and mirrors in relation to the sun and the horizon.
1:37.0	Then he consults his charts and grimaces.
1:41.0	More bad news.
1:43.0	There's no point in alerting anyone immediately.
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