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Peary diary—a remarkable document |
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The Peary diary offers a glimpse into the mind of a
brilliant individual who is the only person in history to accomplish the
round trip polar dash. He had no chance of rescue, yet carefully recorded
every detail without revealing his own fear. In his diary after the Pole,
back on the Roosevelt, he recorded frequently waking up from the same
nightmare—that he had fallen through the ice to drown in the frigid polar
ocean. The point is that no one has ever gone back to the Pole without radio
communication equipment to call in air rescue; something unknown in Peary's
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The diary Peary kept on his way to the
North Pole is now published on the Internet. The entire text has been
transcribed from handwriting for the first time by Douglas
R. Davies. Peary's diary is NOT what other (anti-Peary conspiracy) people have tried to
make of it. It is a wonderful reaffirmation of the truth that Peary and
Henson, with their 4 Eskimos went the distance in 1909. They absolutely
reached the Pole and Peary fully knew it.
Russell R. Robinson, June, 2002 |
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