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In the heroic age of polar exploration, expeditions could disappear for months or even years.  Ships were crushed by ice, men vanished without trace, and rescuers themselves sometimes became stranded. Few stories illustrate the brutal reality of Arctic exploration better than the Alabama Expedition of 1909–1912. Led by Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen, the expedition began as a search for the remains and records of three explorers who had disappeared during an earlier expedition to northeast Greenland. It ultimately became something far more extraordinary. It began with a relatively straightforward objective: to travel to the remote northeast coast of Greenland, investigate the fate of three men who had disappeared during an earlier Danish expedition, and recover their missing journals and reports. Instead, it became an extraordinary struggle for survival. The expedition's leader, Ejnar Mikkelsen, and engineer Iver P. Iversen eventually found themselves alone in one of the most inac...