All Evidence to the Contrary (from Atlantic Monthly)
by Lane Wallace One hundred years ago this month, two intrepid explorers returned from the Arctic reaches and declared that they had reached the North Pole. Not together, but on competing expeditions to become the first person and team to the Pole. Robert E. Peary led one expedition, and Frederick A. Cook led the other. And each declared the other’s claim to the Pole untrue. Today, of course, that kind of controversy could be settled far more easily. At the…