Late Night History With the Sturge

#44 - Andrée’s Arctic Balloon Expedition


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I know what you’re thinking. There’s no way a story about a man and a balloon can be interesting right? Wrong. This is a wild story about a man willing to risk it all to explore the uncharted territory of the arctic traveling by, you guessed it, a balloon. But we’re not talking about a hot air balloon. In the late 1800s they thought the best thing to use was hydrogen. With a total crew of 3 people, and a journey that would last a month, they set out to become pioneers of the North Pole and beyond. What could go wrong?


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Late Night History With the SturgeBy Phantasm Baals