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In the farthest reaches of the Arctic, where winter lasts years and rescue can arrive too late to matter, the Greely Polar Expedition became one of the most harrowing survival stories in human history.

In 1881, Lieutenant Adolphus Greely and thirty-three men sailed north to establish a scientific station at Lady Franklin Bay, confident that relief ships would return before starvation set in. They were wrong. When rescue failed to arrive, the expedition was forced into a desperate retreat across shifting ice to Cape Sabine, where hunger, frostbite, internal conflict, and death began to claim the men one by one.

By the time rescue ships finally fought their way through the ice in 1884, only six men were still alive.

This documentary reconstructs the Greely Expedition from firsthand journals, naval reports, and survivor testimony, tracing the slow collapse from disciplined exploration into survival horror—where moral lines blurred, starvation reshaped minds and bodies, and leadership was tested at the edge of the possible.

You’ll witness:

The failed relief missions battling Arctic pack ice

The retreat from Fort Conger and the final winter at Camp Clay

Starvation, execution, and the unthinkable choices forced by isolation

The rescue that arrived just in time—and far too late

This is not a story of triumph over nature.
It is a story of endurance, consequence, and the terrifying indifference of the Arctic.

If you’re drawn to true survival stories, lost expeditions, and history at its darkest edges, this is a story you won’t forget.

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