The Andrée Expedition: Flying to the Pole to Die

<p>In eighteen ninety-seven, three men climbed into a hydrogen balloon and set off to float over the North Pole. The balloon came down on the ice two days later. They vanished — and for thirty-three years, nobody knew what happened to them. Then a boot was found in the snow on a remote island, beside cameras with the film still inside.</p><p>August Mercer tells the story of a doomed dream, and the photographs developed from a dead man's camera. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p><p><em>#history #truehistory #truestory #truestories</em></p>