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The Quest for the North Pole, Episode 5: Meet Peary and Henson Kat Long Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! It’s summer, 1895, in the northernmost reaches of Greenland. The temperature hovers around freezing. American explorer Robert E. Peary and his assistant Matthew Henson are on a backbreaking journey by dogsled across the ice cap, from Independence Bay, a large fjord on Greenland’s northeastern corner, to their base camp at Bowdoin Bay on the west coast. They’re nearly out of food, and they’re desperately searching for a herd of musk ox to stave off the...

Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! It’s summer, 1895, in the northernmost reaches of Greenland. The temperature hovers around freezing. American explorer Robert E. Peary and his assistant Matthew Henson are on a backbreaking journey by dogsled across the ice cap, from Independence Bay, a large fjord on Greenland’s northeastern corner, to their base camp at Bowdoin Bay on the west coast. They’re nearly out of food, and they’re desperately searching for a herd of musk ox to stave off their deaths by starvation.  The animals they’re stalking weigh up to 800 pounds and are...

Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! It’s June 17, 1896, and Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen is waking up after another frigid night spent on Franz Josef Land. It’s an uninhabited archipelago north of Siberia in the Arctic Ocean. With his assistant Hjalmar Johansen still snoozing nearby, Nansen starts a fire, tosses some meat into a pot to make soup, and climbs atop a rocky hill to admire the view. That’s when he hears it—the unmistakable sound of dogs barking. He’s shocked, because their last sled dog died months ago. The two explorers haven’t laid eyes on ano...

| 18 Jan 2021 | 03:02 West Milford, N.J., resident Coty DeFreese takes a selfie while getting vaccinated on Jan. 7. Since states began expanding eligibility the week of Monday, Jan. 11, area residents have struggled to find available COVID-19 vaccination appointments. Photo provided. There are not enough COVID-19 doses across the Tri-State area to vaccinate those who are currently eligible. The shortage, combined with a lack of streamlined information regarding where and how to obtain a vaccine appointment, has left residents scrambling. The level of anxiety surrounding the lack of vacci...