They had a great exhibit in the Peabody-Essex Museum in Massachusetts that I got to see, they had one of the boats there.
Unbelievable story. What really roasted my bagel was when they said that they became uncomfortably warm trying to sleep when the temperature was about 28 degrees! (IIRC)
And sleeping on an ice floe that cracked and opened under them as they slept...just wow.
And the trip across Georgia Island...astonishing.
They don’t make men like that anymore.
My recollection is they didn’t lose a single man. That is mind boggling.