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| This is how you travel to the Pole.
Not the way Fiennes tries to do it; alone by dragging his
supplies behind him. |
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Herbert was the first
person to reach the North Pole with an air supported
camping trip using 28 tons of supplies. |
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Q: Who is the "World's Greatest Living
Polar Traveler?"
A:
Paul Landry, according to the Miller Beer Book of Boasts
2002 edition. |
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Paul Landry declared
"World's Greatest Living Polar Traveler" |
*2000—42 day dash
to Pole by dog sledge, then returned to 89° N.
**2001—Skied, effortlessly, to North Pole with paying British clients
***2001—Skied, effortlessly, to South Pole his first time there
****2002—Skied, effortlessly, to North Pole with client in only 45 days!
*****2003—Polar
Trilogy planned with Brian Cunningham |
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| Paul Landry at the
North Pole April, 2000 after nearly matching Peary's "so
called"
impossible(2) 1909 sledging speeds—his very first try!
Landry and team mate Crowley are truly skilled dog
handlers on a level unknown to the English who view dogs
as household pets. Landry's skill beats Herbert,
Fiennes, and every British polar team by days!
Landry skied to the Pole in 2002 in only3 days longer
than his record setting dog sledge trip! |
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| "World's Greatest
Living Polar Husky"
is Siarniq |
| Siarniq, shown here during the record breaking
2000 dash to the Pole, has been to the Pole more times in this
millennium than either Herbert or Fiennes. Herbert holds the
record for the slowest trip to the Pole with the most
support (28 tons, 3-airforces) So it is time to move
the Brits aside in the record books. Make way for the dogs! |
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| "Now Fiennes,... says: 'Sadly, I doubt that
Henson and Peary ever got to the North Pole. It can be
mathematically proved that they could not have done it on the
basis of their notes."
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What does Fiennes know about Henson, and dog sledge polar travel?
Nothing that I am aware of. He has no dog sledge experience because he man-hauls
and writes books about his suffering, when he isn't writing
complete fiction. I think
Fiennes is unqualified to comment on the way Henson & Peary
traveled because he has never used, or mastered their methods.
The fact is, he doesn't know so he should keep quiet.
But he didn't and that is why I am protesting his ignorant,
thoughtless rejection of a man who was being honored with the
same medal given to Dr. Jane Goodall.
Fiennes would be widely
condemned if he made a similar statement about the
Hubbard Medal award to Dr. Goodall. Suppose he said "It can
be scientifically proven that Dr. Goodall never taught chimps to
speak, they were only mimicking her." Wouldn't there
be an uproar that he was ignorant of her work and unqualified to
judge her results? Then what makes him qualified to comment on
the 1909 Henson & Peary success? Nothing that I am
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*Source: The Miller Beer
Book of Boasts, 2002 edition. Published by Lord Vernon
Russell-Twittledorf Robinson, MCE. Landry hold's the record
for: fastest dog sledge trip, fastest skiing trip to the
Pole with a paying client, and holds the record for the least
number of air supports/air rescues/body part amputations.
(2) Only people who have no experience
with dogs called it "impossible". In fact, this myth about Peary
began back to 1909 from angry Cook supporters. None of those
individuals had any idea what they were talking about. Later, Herbert also
echoed this accusation in
Noose of Laurels. But Herbert,
as Landry will point out, had no skill on the level necessary to
make a polar dash. In fact, Herbert used grossly over loaded
sledges carrying his luxury camping equipment. Landry notes that
Herbert's 800 pound loads are 400 pounds heavier than Landry's
maximum—the same maximum Peary allowed.
Look at the photos of the Peary sledges at the
Pole. There is hardly anything on them. Just a couple layers of
pemmican. Why? Because the team had already laid a supply trail
of igloos, food, stove fuel, etc. for them on the return trail.
After the Pole they had only to transport themselves and a small
amount of gear home on a trail that had been built by 24 men and
133 dogs traveling in both directions. Herbert and others
never like to mention this. So they call it "impossible" in
their ignorance or their attempts to poison the mind of the
reader against Peary and Henson. But when Landry turned around
from the Pole in April 2002 he discovered that the dogs follow home their own smells.
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follow their urine scent. The dogs know how to find the trail
and Landry reported that their enthusiasm and speed went way up!
Many of the "Peary critics" forget to mention
that the return trip was so "impossibly fast" because of a
simple, understandable fact. The slow part of traveling to the Pole is finding a
trail, navigating with compass when the sun is not visible,
using the time of day and the sun or moon's position at others.
Mile by mile one has to find a way through ice rubble, around open
leads, etc. This is tedious and lowers miles traveled per day to
10-20. But on the return no such time is wasted.
There is no
trail to make, camps are already set up; all one has to do is
dash home. The dogs simply follow their own tracks, aided by
their urine scent markings. That is why it is
not impossible, was not impossible, and how Peary and Henson
reached the North Pole in 1909.
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