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Robert E Peary

A small dog team pushes ahead on the inland ice cap of Greenland. The photo was first published in Northward Over the Great Ice, explorer Robert E. Peary’s account of his trips to Greenland in the 1880s and '90s.

In 1908, explorer Robert E. Peary set sail for the North Pole with 246 dogs. “I shall never forget the frightful noise, the choking stench and the terrible confusion,” wrote the ship’s captain, Bob Bartlett.

Inuit people and their dogs travel by sledge. The photo was first published in Northward Over the Great Ice, explorer Robert E. Peary’s 1898 account of his trips to Greenland. In 1909, he became one of the first to reach the North Pole.

1 of 8 Peary searches the horizon for land. Camp Morris K. Jessup, Arctic Ocean.