The last hour with the crew before Fridtjof Nansen and Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen start out on their expedition toward the North Pole. Here they are on skis, with the kayaks tied on to the sleds. (H. Johansen second from the left, and Fridtjof Nansen second from the right). One of the pictures from the expedition with arctic ship toward the North Pole in the period June 24, 1893 to August 13, 1896. According to the plan, the ship was to drift in the ice with the ocean current from the coast of Siberia across the North Pole to Greenland. In March 1895, Fridtjof Nansen, together with a companion, set out on a hazardous expedition with skis and dogsledges, in an attempt to reach the pole itself.
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