Aug 27, 2026 · 2 hr 30 min · 12 segments
Is there land at the North Pole, or just ice? Is the water up there frozen solid, or open ocean? In 1879 nobody actually knew, and the best science of the day was hilariously wrong: punch through the…
Hayden SammakHostIt is shifting and crunching and shaking and growling and sighing, and August Petermann, you know, very quickly realizes, "We are stuck, and we are at the mercy of forces much greater than we can ever anticipate."
Welcome back to the Backcountry Manifesto podcast, where I'm your buddy Out West Hayden Sam.
Back today on the show we have, as promised, uh, we got Hampton Sides back, and we're gonna talk about another one of your books, another great story about another just wild human endeavor of exploration.
Um, that being, uh, you know, the story told in your book, In the Kingdom of Ice.
Can you give me the full title of that book, because I did such a poor job with the byline in the last one?
Uh, so the, um, In the Kingdom of Ice subtitle is, uh, The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette.
We were talking earlier, and man, this is just, like, a wildly, wildly captivating, um...
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