I have always considered the Fram story as the quintessential refutation of characterizing early efforts as "failures." They are anything but. They often provide mankind's first sight of what is possible. And, those are successes.
I made my own journey to the pole under somewhat different circumstances. Nonetheless, the environment was precisely the same and equally dangerous. We lived in modified tents on the trek from the northern tip of Ellesmere island. Life changing it was, without doubt. I was eighteen: https://aspiritquest.substack.com/p/to-the-north-pole-i-went
I have always considered the Fram story as the quintessential refutation of characterizing early efforts as "failures." They are anything but. They often provide mankind's first sight of what is possible. And, those are successes.
I made my own journey to the pole under somewhat different circumstances. Nonetheless, the environment was precisely the same and equally dangerous. We lived in modified tents on the trek from the northern tip of Ellesmere island. Life changing it was, without doubt. I was eighteen: https://aspiritquest.substack.com/p/to-the-north-pole-i-went
Loved reading this
For once, I can see the cause for my mother's perpetual exclamations that all these Norweigan people look like me. 😎
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that must have been a hell of a drag trip