Beginning at the North Pole, the pair had skied 600 miles to this spot off the northern coast of Franz Josef Land, the remote Siberian archipelago where Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen had ...

Although they were still 226 miles shy of the Pole, they had ventured farther north than any human ever ... facing the only direction Dr. Fridtjof Nansen ever knew—forward.