We Still Don’t Know Who Was First to the North Pole

(via Popular Mechanics)  Today, more than a century after Peary and Henson returned from their Arctic adventure and on what would be Henson’s 150th birthday, there is still mystery about who was first to the North Pole. Was it Peary or Cook? As later evidence would suggest, the answer may have been neither. “Whatever the truth is,” wrote Steffens in 1909, “the situation is as wonderful as the Pole.”