"If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of
the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No. 1 cover
boy."The Chicago SunTimes In September of 1893,
Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen and crew manned the
schooner Fram, intending to drift, frozen in the Arctic packice,
to the North Pole. When it became clear that they would miss
the pole, Nansen and companion Hjalmar Johansen struck off
by themselves. Racing the shrinking packice, they attempted,
by dogsled, to go "farthest north." They survived a winter in
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