Article in New Yorker on S.A. Andree, Swedish balloonist

[rich]

very interesting. full text is not online, alas

ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF EXPLORATION about S. A. Andrée’s ill-fated attempt to
fly over the North Pole with two companions in a hydrogen balloon in 1897

Unlike other men who went looking for the Pole, Andrée was an engineer, not
an explorer. His ambition was to prove that balloons could sail to places
that couldn’t otherwise be reached.

Read more:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/19/100419fa_fact_wilkinson#ixzz0kzBBpRVS
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