James Gordon Bennett Jr the wealthy heir of the New York Herald empire decides to boost his paper's readership by sponsoring an expedition to be the first to reach the North Pole. For this job he chooses the eager yet totally inexperienced George Washington De Long to lead a crew of equally inexperienced arctic explorers. What could go wrong?

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