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Ep. 395: When Things Go South Up North

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Realm of Ice and Sky, Part 3

"I have a mother contract to write a third book in the trilogy," he says. "It's about the first, what are called airships or blimps." In 1905, an American dude named Walter Wellman tried to fly from Svalbard and Spitzbergen north of Norway into the North Pole. He died but ended up being kind of pioneer for polar exploration. And then later, Amundsen ultimately goes with this guy named Umberto Nobale.

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