
439: No Such Thing As A Finger Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
Wally Herbert's Triumphant Expedition to the North Pole
The only people who witnessed him are four inuquit people, all sworn to secrecy. His diary was inconsistent. He didn't recall the readings that would have proved where he got to. No explorer has ever covered this ground over the same number of days. If he had got there, it's not even him who really did it. It was matthew henson. Henson loyes, his partner, who is a sort of got shunned from history.
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