Deadly Expeditions: Four Disastrous Real-Life Adventures

Throughout history, explorers have forged paths through uncharted areas. In 1845, Sir John Franklin led two ships through the Arctic to find a Northwest Passage to Asia. In 1910, Sir Robert Falcon Scott led a team of Englishmen on a race to the South Pole. In 1921, Inupiat seamstress Ada Blackjack joined a group of white men establishing a trading post on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean. In 1925, Percy Fawcett trekked into the jungles of South America looking for a lost city of gold. Non...