From polar explorer to gifted innovator: Russell W. Porter
Posted in General, History on December 21st, 2009 by Peter LipscombAt the dawn of the 20th Century, arctic expeditions and the quest to reach the north pole were the Apollo moonshots of the day. After attending lectures by famed arctic explorer Robert Peary in 1892, a young man named Russell W. Porter joined up with Frederick Cook’s Greenland voyage as surveyor and artist. Porter’s travels throughout the arctic were fraught with peril. Along with his crew mates on the Ziegler Polar Expedition, he was marooned for 3 years when the expedition’s ship America was crushed by ice near Rudolf Island.
