At 12:23 PM 9/17/96 GMT, you wrote: >This is a very lucid reply from Slawomir, but I think it contains one >error. Although Peary is credited with reaching the north pole, if memory >serves me correct (and I admit it frequently does not these days!), >recent research on Peary's diary shows that he did NOT reach the pole. >Worse still, he KNEW he had not made it, but fudged the readings, and was >(and still is) feted as a national hero. I have a newspaper cutting from >a fairly recent edition (1996) of the English paper "The Daily Telegraph" >which details it; if anyone wants the reference I will try to remember to >sort it out tonight (but as I've said, my memory......). > >Peter Tandy > On Tue, 17 Sep >1996 00:46:08 -070, Slawomir K. Grzechnik writes:
Thanks Peter. I know that there was some doubt about reaching the North Pole by Peary in his own time. Fortunately such doubt never existed in case of the South Pole. All three great explorers, that is Shackleton (he nearly made it few years before Norwegians), Amundsen and Scott had reputations beyond all doubt. I would be interested if you sent me the reference to "The Daily Telegraph" dealing with the matter of the North Pole. By the way, Amundsen after reaching the South Pole remarked that no human was ever farther away (geographically) from his dreams than he himself. Because his dream was always the North Pole. Imagine that only about 80 years ago there was still such a chalenge as reaching the Poles. - Slawek Grzechnik
