The scale of the loss—two vessels and 129 men—and the mystery ... his sights set on going to the North Pole, which had replaced the Northwest Passage as the chief goal of Arctic explorers.

A National Geographic team sought to find evidence of their fate—but the Arctic doesn’t give up ... time and storms to solve the 175-year-old mystery of what happened to the legendary captain ...

The Arctic explorer had peculiarly fallen ill the ... "The fact that arsenic was used by a person who could have been inclined to murder is something,” Duska said. “He could have just added ...