Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hubert's new friend was Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, ex-convict, ex-explorer, only living man who ever claimed that he led a party to the North Pole on foot...
Only other man who ever made such a claim was Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, who died in 1920. Both Cook and Peary were once presidents of Manhattan's famed Explorers' Club. Their portraits now hang there, side by side, although over Peary and Cook, three decades ago, exploded one of the fiercest controversies in the history of exploration...
...Sullivan County, N. Y., to a German immigrant named Koch, Frederick Albert Cook wa's born in 1865. He worked his way through medical school, hung out his shingle in Brooklyn. Interested by the plans for Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891, he volunteered, was accepted. Later Cook went on a Belgian Antarctic expedition and won the admiration of Roald Amundsen. Cook's other expeditions were to Greenland, Alaska, Mount Everest, Borneo. He was rated a popular and able explorer...
...Cook made his own first and only "dash to the Pole." He left the land in March, trekked across the pack ice with only two Eskimos, two sleds, 26 dogs. He claimed that he reached the North Pole on April 21, spent two days taking observations of the sun. On the way back he had a dreadful time, spent the following winter in a cave...
...Sept. 1, 1909, word of Cook's claim reached civilization. Five days later Peary cabled his own claim from Labrador, followed it shortly by a bitter denunciation of Cook: "Do not trouble about Cook's story. . . . He has not been to the Pole. . . . He has simply handed the public a gold brick...