In February 1908 he set off in search of the North Pole. Two Inuit guides, Etukishook and Ahwelah, accompanied Cook all the way north to where he claimed he reached 90° north on April 21, 1908.

A 1988 report from fellow explorer Wall Herbert (published in National Geographic) claimed that the Peary/Henson expedition fell 30 to 60 miles short of the pole. A 1989 study made a similar claim.

In an unsupported expedition, North Pole travelers must ski, snowshoe, swim, and climb, all while towing a 300-pound sled of supplies approximately 480 miles, which takes about 50 to 70 days.

Outside magazine, December 1997 Adventure: To the Pole … the One-Brick-Short-of-a-Load Way A group of fearless “expeditioners” rings in the new year with an aerial assault on Antarctica By ...

Last year, FIU professor David Kadko led a team of 51 U.S. scientists into the Arctic on the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy. Reaching the North Pole on Sept. 5, 2015, his landmark expedition aimed ...

Guests at the North Pole Igloos will sleep in one of 10 heated glass-walled igloos, where they can gaze at the stars, and probably the northern lights, through glass ceilings.