Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
The North Pole - Travel
Peary's sledge and dog team
"The following march, on the 13th, was distinctly crisp. When we started the thermometer was minus 53°, the minimum during the night having been minus 55°; and when the twilight of evening came on it was down to minus 59°... I traveled ahead of my division this march, and whenever I looked back could see neither men nor dogs—only a low-lying bank of fog glistening like silver in the horizontal rays of the sun behind it to the south—this fog being the steam of the dog teams and the men. The going during this march was fairly good, except at the beginning, where for about five miles we zigzagged through a zone of very rough ice. The distance covered was at least twelve miles. Our camp that night was on a large old floe in the lee of a large hummock of ice and snow." - Robert E. Peary in The North Pole, published in 1910
The
Rear Party at Last
MacMillan
Departs
"Peary's sledge on ice cap" by Donald B. MacMillan, 1909, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
