Just for perspective you must realize that more people have gone into space than have trekked to the North Pole.

True north : Peary, Cook, and the race to the Pole  Bruce Henderson  New York :
W.W. Norton & Co., c 2005  0393057917 North Pole, Explorers United States
Biography,  Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 Hardcover. 1st ed. 331
p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-318) and
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 In this balanced account of the continuing controversy over who was the first explorer to reach the North Pole in 1908 (Cook) or 1909 (Peary), Henderson traces the lives of the two former friends who bitterly contested that claim. Photos feature each on various expeditions, their family members, and Eskimo helpers.

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