罗伯特·皮瑞,美国海军的民用工程师,他有一个强烈的抱负——征服北极。1886年,三十岁的他进行了他第一次的极地旅行,驾雪橇在冰封的格陵兰岛内陆探险。在后来的23年里,他考察了格陵兰岛的北海岸线并绘出了地图,曾几次尝试到达北极——1905至1906年间,他曾驾着他的“罗斯福”号船到了距北极280千米以内的地方。1909年3月,与马休·汉森以及50个因纽特人援助者一起,带着250条狗,在经过36天的跋涉以后,皮瑞穿过了北极那块荒凉的冰原。 Robert Pry, a civil engineer with the U.S. Navy, has a strong vision of conquering the North Pole. In 1886, at the age of thirty, he made his first polar trip and sledged inland in the frozen Greenland. For the next 23 years he inspected and mapped the northern coastline of Greenland and made several attempts to reach the North Pole - between 1905 and 1906 he flew his “Roosevelt” Within 280 km. In March 1909, along with Matthew Hansen and 50 Inuit Inazirins with 250 dogs, Pirie crossed the desolate ice sheet of the Arctic after 36 days of trekking.