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1897: A race against time and all odds in this heartpounding true adventure.
The Impossible Rescue
What you need to know before your trail
The dead of an Arctic winter. Whaling ships full of men, stranded in ice. Follow three rescuers in a race against time and all odds in this heartpounding true adventure.
In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska s coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative. And in that particular year, winter blasted early, bringing storms and ice packs that caught eight American whale ships and three hundred sailors off guard.
Travel Guide
The Arctic
A true and fascinating story
The Alaska Relief Expedition or Point Barrow-Overland Relief Expedition, was an expedition in the winter of 1897–1898 by officers of the United States Revenue Cutter Service to save the lives of 265 whalers trapped in the Arctic Ocean by ice around their ships near Point Barrow, Alaska.
The mission? A perilous trek over 1,500 miles of nearly impassable Alaskan terrain, in the bone-chilling months of winter, to secure two herds of reindeer (for food) and find a way to guide them to the whalers before they starve.”
“Their ships locked in ice, with no means of escape, the whalers had limited provisions on board, and little hope of surviving until warmer temperatures arrived many months later. Here is the incredible story of three men sent by President McKinley to rescue them.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Impossible Rescue
Destination:Point Barrow, Alaska Author/Guide: Martin W Sandler Departure Time: 1897
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