mental_floss Blog » The Disastrous North Pole Balloon Mission of 1897

mental_floss Blog » The Disastrous North Pole Balloon Mission of 1897: "Reaching the North Pole was an international obsession during the late 19th century. Various countries devised plans for becoming the first to reach the pole, but no journey was as fascinating (or as doomed) as Sweden’s S.A. Andree’s mission to cross the Arctic in a hydrogen balloon."