Shackleton. Scott. Amundsen. The great twentieth-century polar
explorers. But others, too, were engaged in scrambles to the poles.
One of the most bizarre and tragic took place in 1928.
Against the backdrop of Mussolini's rising power, one of Italy's
premier aeronautical engineers, Umberto Nobile, gained acclaim by
crossing the North Pole in a dirigible. With this success under his
belt, Nobile decided in 1928 to raise the ante and take his newly
designed airship to the North Pole, land it and then return to
base. But what started in glory turned into a tale of disaster when
the airship crashed some three hundred miles from civilization.
With over thirty years of research and interviews with surviving
participants, Wilbur Cross presents this terrifying tale of tragedy
and survival. Here is the story of the airship's survivors stranded
on an ice floe that begins to break apart into sea. It's about an
international team of rescuers' determination to find the missing
Italians only to be lost themselves; the most famous to never
return was Roald Amundsen. And it's about the controversy
surrounding the rescue of Nobile while much of his crew perished in
the icy wastelands of the Arctic.
Filled with political intrigue, heroics, and cruel twists of
fate, "Disaster at the Pole" is the fascinating story of one of the
greatest polar tragedies.
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