The Ice BalloonBy: Alec Wilkinson In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andre made a revolutionary attempt to discover the North Pole by flying over it in a hydrogen balloon. Thirty three years later, his expedition diaries and papers would be discovered on the ice. Alec Wilkinson uses the explorers papers and contemporary sources to tell the full story of this ambitious voyage, while also showing how