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First to parachute onto North Pole: Vitaly Volovich and Andrei Medvedev (Soviet Union) [7] on May 9, 1949, [8] [9] from Douglas C-47 Skytrain, registered CCCP H-369. [10] First vessel to reach North Pole: the submarine USS Nautilus. August 3, 1958; First to reach North Pole by surface travel (on Ski-Doo): Ralph Plaisted. April 19, 1968
He is best known for his participation in the 1908–1909 expedition that claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole on April 6, 1909. Henson said he was the first of their party to reach the North Pole. Henson was born in Nanjemoy, Maryland, to sharecropper parents who were free Black Americans before the Civil War.
Erling Kagge is the first person to reach the North Pole, South Pole and the summit of Mount Everest on foot. [citation needed]In 1990, Erling Kagge and Børge Ousland became the first people ever to reach the North Pole unsupported. [2]
It is also said that Herbert was the first person to reach the pole of inaccessibility. [37] Soviet icebreaker Arktika, the first surface ship to reach the North Pole, 1977. On 17 August 1977 the Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika completed the first surface vessel journey to the North Pole.
Byrd claimed to be the first to reach both the North and South Poles by air. However, there is some controversy as to whether Byrd was actually the first person to reach the North Pole. It is generally believed that the distance Byrd claimed to fly was longer than the possible fuel range of his airplane. [2] [3]
As part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition he reached the South Pole overland in 1958. He subsequently reached the North Pole, making him the first person to reach both poles and summit Everest. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. [3]
As reflected in a diary entry he made in 1885, during his time in the Navy, he resolved to be the first man to reach the North Pole. [5] In April 1886, he wrote a paper for the National Academy of Sciences proposing two methods for crossing Greenland's ice cap. One was to start from the west coast and trek about 400 mi (640 km) to the east coast.
Naomi Uemura (植村 直己, Uemura Naomi, February 12, 1941 – disappeared February 13, 1984) was a Japanese adventurer who was known particularly for his solo exploits. . For example, he was the first person to reach the North Pole solo, the first person to raft the Amazon River solo, and the first person to climb Denali so