Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1908- Cape Sheridan: Destiny
The Roosevelt stuck in ice at Cape
Sheridan.
“There are some feelings which a man cannot express in words. Such were mine as the mooring lines went out onto the ice foot at Cape Sheridan.... All the uncertainties of ice navigation—the possible loss of the Roosevelt and a large quantity of our supplies—were at an end… So here we were, safely bestowed at Cape Sheridan, and the prize seemed already in our grasp... We knew just what we had to do, and just how to do it. Only a few months of waiting, the fall hunting, and the long, dark winter were all that lay between me and the final start. I had the dogs, the men, the experience, a fixed determination (the same impulse which drove the ships of Columbus across the trackless western sea)—and the end lay with that Destiny which favors the man who follows his faith and his dream to the last breath.” – Robert E. Peary in The North Pole, published in 1910
"The Roosevelt iced in... " by Donald B. MacMillan, 1908-1909, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
