Swedish scientist Salomon Andrée and Knut Frænkel with crashed balloon only two days after their July 1897 departure to chart the North Pole, photograph by third expedition member Nils Strindberg. In 1930, film documenting the trip was found with the expl

Swedish scientist Salomon Andrée and Knut Frænkel with crashed balloon only two days after their July 1897 departure to chart the North Pole, photograph by third expedition member Nils Strindberg. In 1930, film documenting the trip was found with the explorers’ bodies on Kvit Island.