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SYMHC Classics: S.A. Andrée and the 1897 North Pole Balloon Mission

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Snow House and the Three Adventurers

Their ice hut was completed on september 20 eighth, but just four days later, the ice floe that they built it on broke apart and water came rushing in. The three men had to hustle to get all their supplies together and to get it up off the breaking ice before everything drifted away. So we don't know for certain when or how the three adventurers died. When the white island camp was discovered in 19 30, their supplies were still in the boat.

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