Peary describes his last Arctic expedition aboard the Roosevelt: the planning and supplies, the Inuit families recruited at Cape York, the winter at Cape Sheridan, and the relay of sledge parties across the drifting sea ice that he says brought him, Matthew Henson and four Inuit companions to the Pole in April 1909, a claim that historians have long disputed.
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