Gotthard

And that was electrified.

Gothard are from, I'm not sure if it's Gotthard or Gothard, but good, bad.

They are from Switzerland.

Yeah.

So when we do our European band special, Bri, I like to hatch these specials on the hoof, then I'm sure Gotthard will get a look in.

Sorry, Bri, yes, what were you going to say?

I was going to say, thank goodness you said European, because if you'd have said Swiss, it would have been Gotthard and Crocus.

That would have been our

The latest is called Grits and Glory, gave us a song called Don't Burn Down the Bridge.

Then one of the most successful Swiss hard rock bands ever, been around since the early 90s, call themselves Gotthard.

All of their albums have reached the number one spot on the Swiss charts.

The new one is called More Stereo Crush.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. the continuing interest of the unsolved polar mystery has been strikingly illustrated by the eagerness with which the press of the world has caught at every word that seems to indicate the success and safety of the brave norwegian in his dangerous drift voyage toward the north pole Dr. Fritjof Nansen, born in 1861, became famous by crossing, first of all men, the inland ice of Greenland in 1888, from Umivik, 64 degrees 45 minutes north on the east coast, to Kangarsunek fjord, 50 miles south of Gotthard.

Later, he conceived a novel and dangerous plan for polar work.

ignoring the accepted rules of ice navigation of avoiding besetment and following the protected lee of land masses he decided to put his ship into the ice to the north of the new siberian islands whence he believed that he would be carried by ocean currents across the pole to the spitzbergen sea his steamer from one hundred and twenty five feet long with an oak hull thirty inches thick and sheathed with green heart was built so as to rise under ice pressure as he claimed the crew of twelve were provisioned for five years though he expected by a drift of a little over two miles per day to reach the atlantic in two years no explorer of experience endorsed the plan but with undaunted courage nansen sailed june twenty fourth eighteen ninety three and entering the sea of kara was last seen to the east of nova zembla in september eighteen ninety three he visited neither the time or peninsula nor the new siberian islands as events have since shown february thirteenth eighteen ninety six a despatch from irkutsk on the authority of koncharov an agent of nansen stated that the explorer having reached land masses at the north pole was now returning two days later a despatch from archangel confirmed the first report in general terms only from the beginning no credit was given to these despatches by any american arctic explorer or student melville schutze dall and the writer were strangers in disbelief but the story was credited by scores of persons both in europe and this country who did not find it peculiar that the story from the centre of asia was confirmed from the north of europe nor were surprised that such news came from the siberian ocean in midwinter through the norwegian press nansen's relatives announced their disbelief in this rumor as to the drift relics found on the west coast of greenland which were relied on by nansen as practical proof that his theory of adrift voyage was correct it may be said that melville the man best qualified to speak about the jined denied at the time their genuineness and endeavored without avail to have them brought to this country the writer publicly called nansen's attention to this question which for the first time seems to have created doubts in his mind nansen made efforts to find the relics for verification but they had disappeared in toto while nansen's journey is exceedingly dangerous it would not be astonishing if he was able to return from his ship if it was lost south of eighty one degrees north to the asiatic coast but if he really approached the north pole as is possible before his vessel was destroyed it is safe to say that he will pay for an unequalled latitude with his life and carry the secret of his well-earned success to his grave the numerous errors lately set forth in the press indicate the need of accurate data relative to latitudes attained the tendency to unfairly present data in the interests of individuals or nations is of constant occurrence and it is not surprising that the general public should be unfamiliar with all the facts this is especially true in arctic matters as is shown by the north polar chart in the times atlas eighteen ninety five so much lauded for its fulness and accuracy on this chart the highest north of the german swedish and english paris eighteen twenty seven expeditions is so described in full by text and latitudes in the case of beaumont the english explorer his latitude is given as eighty two degrees fifty four minutes north which is thirty three miles too far north and his record is spread on the map above that of lockwood while the last-named explorer who actually made the highest north ever attained has not even his latitude entered in this remarkable case of suppressio veri an american explorer loses his nationality his latitude and his hard-earned record all other nationalities having their data entered in full under these conditions it seems to be rendering a geographical service to reproduce here a table extracted from a handbook of arctic discovery written by myself records of the highest north made since fifteen eighty seven in the eastern and western hemispheres by land and by sea this table is reproduced by permission of roberts brothers publishers eastern hemisphere commander william date july fourteenth fifteen ninety four north latitude seventy seven degrees twenty minutes longitude sixty two degrees east locality near cape nassau nova zembla commander reepen heemskerk baron's third voyage date june nineteenth fifteen ninety six north latitude seventy nine degrees forty nine minutes longitude twelve degrees east locality north spitzbergen commander henry hudson date july thirteenth sixteen o seven north latitude eighty degrees twenty three minutes longitude ten degrees east Locality, Spitsbergen Sea.