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Robert Peary is famously credited as the first person to set foot on the North Pole, 100 years ago this month, but new evidence suggests there is much more to the story.
This month marks 100 years since Robert Peary became the first person to reach the North Pole…or was he? Host Jeff Young talks with Harvard Professor S. Alan Counter who’s investigated Peary’s journey. Counter says the trip to the pole is just the tip of the iceberg. The rest of Peary’s story includes an overlooked African-American explorer, who played a crucial role on the journey and Inuit children the explorers fathered and then left behind.