In 1909, a young American, Ross Marvin, was helping Robert Peary on his last North Pole expedition. Marvin did not survive. He supposedly fell through a crack in the sea ice and drowned.

There are also numerous books about whether Peary made it to the North Pole. Two of the best known are The Noose of Laurels: Robert E. Peary and the Race for the North Pole by Wally Herbert (Atheneum, ...

In Nicaragua, Peary began to dream of being the one to discover the North Pole. All the while, Robert kept up his courtship with Josephine through six years of far-flung naval assignments ...

In the late nineteenth century, there was only one Earthly frontier left to discover: the North Pole ... One of history’s most driven Pole-seekers, Robert Peary, shocked the world when he ...