Hey everyone! I just wanted to give a huge shoutout to my editor, who has been hitting it out of the park recently with the visuals. Have a great week! - Sean
It was quite the situation and I get what she did was wrong but don't understand why she got charged for kicking a goat one time you would not believe what happens to those goats over in Afghanistan 🫢
@@Cash4gold84 The entire show is scripted, all episodes. Bear grylls goes to the forest/mountains films and head backs to a hotel or camp. Only to resume filming the next day . He eats worms and likes only for camera otherwise he eats scrumptious meals provided by his crew. This is done with every episode you see . He has even apologized for faking it but continues with the show . UA-cam "Re: Man Vs. Wild, Bear Grylls is a Phony" Google "Reasons Why Man Vs. Wild Is Totally Fake looper" Sorry. Even I was shocked when I first heard it . Lost all respect for the man .
This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever heard. I can’t believe there were so many red flags yet all those men were still like “yep, we’re good, let’s take off over the arctic.” 🤦🏾♀️
I believe that Andree suspected in his heart that his venture had a rather non-zero chance of ending tragically, but he drew too much attention to expedition and Swedish society had correspondingly high expectations, which made it impossible for him to simply accept that the expedition is poorly prepared and, in fact, preparations must be started from scratch.
Another important detail is that they were extremely unprepared for the arctic and brought a lot of unnecessary shit. Like, their clothes were too cold for a start, and instead of bringing you know, useful stuff, they brought champagne and chandeliers and silverware and whatnot because they were only preparing for the fancy reception they’d get when they landed. Andrée ignored all the red flags because all he could think about was the honour and glory he’d receive. He even noticed that the balloon was leaking while they were setting it up and went and filled it up in secret so people wouldn’t notice! They also seemed like, totally unafraid of the polar bears and didn’t realise that they’re vicious killers. We don’t know exactly how they died, but it was probably a combination of bear attacks, malnutrition, disease, hypothermia and too much morphine (which can cause you to not realise you’re freezing). A swedish doctor and writer named Bea uusma have Ben pouring over this case for the last ??? 20 years or something, her book about it is fantastic and I highly recommend it to anyone who understands swedish.
Another important point - Andree did not consider it necessary to study the experience of the survival of the peoples of the North, so the same sleigh was built, let's say, according to the "European" scheme, and not according to the more suitable Inuit one. All of his equipment was bad, except for the assembly boat. And the balloon control system with guides was de facto disabled even during the launch process. And the biggest misfortune for them was that, as a result of their wanderings, they went into a very remote corner - the island of Kvitøya (aka Gillis Land), which was mostly ice-bound and the approaches to it were extremely difficult. The fact that they were found in 1930 was only possible thanks to a very warm summer. Andree's expedition is a vivid, textbook example of how not to prepare an expedition. With that level of equipment and training, Andre and the people who trusted and followed him had no chance of survival at all.
When watching these videos (expedition, caving, diving, etc) I've noticed that there's a "should be OK" moment that ends up not being OK. For example, climbing a mountain and getting to the "must go back" point but continuing on because it "should be OK".
@@tomsanders5584 I listen to/read a lot of caving and diving stories a SURPRISING ammount come from 'experienced' cavers or divers who completely ignored many *very* obvious "YOU WILL DIE HERE" signs, then people are surprised they havent returned from the caves when expected
They didn't even put the sleds together correctly, that's why they were so hard to pull. Also one guy packed an encyclopedia, you'd think it was because it had useful information but no. It was just random stuff that didn't apply to their situation. One guy was probably killed by a polarbear, they found his thermals missing a leg. It looked ripped off like by an animal. One guy lost a few fingernails when putting on his gloves, he noticed a red brown liquid in my glove and he pulled his hand out and found his fingernails had come off(they're in the museum in Gränna, Sweden). Lots of things went so wrong. I highly recommend going to the Polar museum in Gränna, it has so many of the objects they found. It's a tale of men dying from their hubris.
You have to wonder about this guy who opted out because he didn't trust the balloon. How must he have felt as these people never returned? Some mix of relief and undeserved guilt about what, if anything, he could have done maybe. He probably knew he'd been right already when learning about the launch, but he'd have spent the rest of his life very aware that they still hadn't been found.
Nah why would he feel guilty? He had run the calculations and realised straight off the bat it’s a suicide mission with the same balloon. Other people could do the same calculations and come to that conclusion. If they still went, they gambled their life for the chance of glory. Ekholm himself knew a successful expedition would immortalise him at the risk of death, when the risk got too big he dipped. I’m sure he knew all three of them were dead men walking by the time they left Sweden.
As a Swede, a few comments: - At the time Sweden and Norway were the same country, as part of the "United Kingdoms of Norway and Sweden", you can see the union flag on many of the photos. - Sweden doesn't have and never had a federal government, "Royal Government" would be more appropriate. - When their remains were found, one of them, Stringberg I think, had been buried under a cairn of rocks and it is theorized that he was killed in a polar bear attack just days before the other two succumbed. - Describing the remains as skeletons is not quite accurate, "half-eaten, frozen corpses" would be more accurate as the bodies hadn't really decomposed and polar bears eaten what they could. - The Trichinosis hypothesis is very old fashioned and these days the theory you outline at the end is generally accepted, that Andrée died of suicide following the deaths of the other two. - Andrée didn't have morphine bottles but rather blister packs of morphine pills. That said, this mystery continues to fascinate Swedes to this day and is always a popular subject of discussion if it comes up. As a kid I went to an exhibition featuring some of the recovered items at the Royal Technical Museum in Stockholm. There is also an Andrée museum in his hometown of Gränna.
Just wanted to say, I found your channel last night, and I'm about 60% through watching all your videos already and I wnated to say Sean, I love the way you listen to feedback and even went about changing things slightly so that disabled fans can listen and enjoy easier and take all feedback so seriously. I've been here not even 24 hours but it genuinely feels like we're all a part of the channel, and as someone with auditory processing issues and being partially deaf, thank you so much for genenuinely listening and working out new ways to bring scary and interesting content to all of us (plus the descriptions of videos for those just listening/with sight impariments are awesome. never seen another channel do this personally). Love the content, loved this video and I can't wait to see what else you discover and share with us.
"It seemed that the airworthiness was over-exaggerated by the manufacturer" Turn-of-the-century manufacturer lying about the capabilities of it's products? No waaaaaay
The risks taken when trying to outdo another country in discovery for nationalistic reasons seem to be a theme in a whole class of particularly disastrous historic tragedies. I wonder if stories like that have only slowed because the discoveries that happen to be left to us to make haven't been that dangerous in a while, or spurred the same grand dream of personal glory and nationalistic success. Darkly fitting that it was Norwegians who eventually found these poor guys in the arctic by accident. Should have just handed it to Norway and moved on, I guess. I wonder if the French balloon manufacturers had a similar problem, trying to prove themselves when they really couldn't and never being properly called on it. I wonder about the guy who opted out because the balloon had such problems. How must he have felt?
Always ask the manufacturer, or his son, to join you Same at power stations "OK, they turned off the supply" ... "Great, touch it then" ... "Hang on, let me check something" - saved more than one person at our place
or, more likely, the balloon wasn't designed or properly tested for/in the arctic conditions it was supposed to perform. Sailing over France, or sailing over the Artic is very different kettle of fish...
This is literally something straight out of my nightmares. I've always had a fear of the ocean, icebergs, and everything related to it. And the thought of being stuck in a situation like this would give me a heart attack before the environment gets me.
Then avoid the book "The Terror", by Dan Simmons. It's a novel loosely based upon the failed Franklin expedition to the artic. While hardly factual and downright fanciful (there were no survivors of the real expedition), it's very well written and rather terrifying.
I've been fascinated with the age of polar exploration for a while now, & this has always been one of my favorite stories from it. It's absolutely INCREDIBLE to me that those men managed to survive so long! Sean, if you're interested in doing another video like this, DEFINITELY look into the Airship Italia disaster of 1928. If that story isn't the absolute epitome of "scary interesting," then I don't know what is. To give you just a quick rundown: In 1928 an Italian team led by eccentric Italian General & engineer Umberto Nobile tried to reach the North Pole via dirigible, but crashed, resulting in half the crew spilling out onto the ice & the other half still in the envelope of the airship... which then began to drift away. 😳 One of the survivors "would later recall that he saw the envelope drifting above him, & (starboard engine mechanic) Ciocca halfway out of the starboard engine car staring down in horror." It's a truly fascinating story. Roald Amundsen (the first man to reach both the North Pole & South Pole) actually disappeared himself while helping to search for the survivors. I highly suggest looking into it -- it seems like just the type of thing that would be PERFECT for this channel!
@@ScaryInteresting It's a really fascinating story! And the further you look into it, the more interesting (& creepy) it gets! After the airship crashed & the envelope started to float away, one of the men still inside the envelope started to throw all of the food & other useful supplies he could find down to the survivors on the ice -- he must have immediately realized that he & the other men trapped inside were basically as good as dead, & those supplies might at least help the survivors to get by until they could be rescued. The envelope of the airship was never found & is presumed to have eventually fell into the sea, killing everyone unlucky enough to remain trapped within. Many of the survivors were eventually rescued, but if I'm remembering this correctly, there are rumors that one of them either died or committed suicide & was then cannibalized by the others. It's just an all-around fascinating (& terrifying) story. I've been a MASSIVE fan of your channel for well over a year now & just wanted to say thanks for always putting out such amazing content! Your channel is easily in my top three favorite UA-cam channels of all time. It would be awesome to see you make a video on this disaster, because I'm sure you would do it great justice -- but regardless, I'll keep looking forward to your amazing videos, they're always one of the highlights of my week!
@@dailealexander2055 Yes, there was a rather strange episode with the death of the Swedish geophysicist Malmgren, who left the camp of survivors along with the Italians Zappi and Mariano in order to reach Svalbard. According to the Italians, the exhausted Malmgren himself asked to be left behind. When both Italians were rescued, eyewitnesses noted that Zappi looked good and was wearing Malmgren's warm clothes. Hence the hypothesis that the Italians ate the Swede. But there is no confirmation of this.
Wow. I didn't realize there were people over 130 years old that can remember that. Was everything actually black and white back then? Lol I am joking by the way.
@@ScaryInteresting whatever happened to your original Plura Cave upload from way back when you started this channel? I'm dying to know where it went and why
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 The people from Africa haven't contributed much of anything to modern civilization. Unless you count starving to death in very large numbers, which is a feat in and of itself.
Thank you Sean from Sweden for an EXCELLENT video about this famous and tragic expedition! You tell it so well and interestingly, with many details! I thought of some interesting additional facts that you may already know, or not. :-) 1. Most famous is the love story between Nils Strindberg and his fiancee Anna, the love of his life, whom he was going to marry when he got back. He had a gold locket with him with a lock of Anna's hair in it. In his calendar was a drawing Anna had made of the balloon with the three men, and a girl on the ground waving with a handkerchief. Under the drawing she had written "I can not follow you." Anna eventually married another man, but made a request that her heart should be buried in Nils' grave after her death. It was put there secretly by Nils' brothers and rests in a little box.🖤 2. Nils Strindberg was a close relative of August Strindberg (1849-1912), who is one of Sweden's most famous and popular authors and playwrights, known internationally. 3. I have visited the grave of the members of the Andree expedition. They are buried together at the cemetary Haga Norra where lots of other famous Swedes are buried, and the grave has a large obelisk on top with cut outs in the rock that show the key moments of the expedition. Around the obelisk are placed large rocks brought from the island Vitön where they were found. 4. The Swedish author and physician Bea Uusma is obsessed with the Andree expedition and did research for over 15 years, studying material, letters and autopsy reports (there were autopsies but very superficial). She formed the theory about the polar bear attack, based, among other facts, on Nils Strindberg's missing trouser leg. 5. The movie "Ingenjör Andrees luftfärd" (Engineer Andree's air travel) was made in 1982 by the very talented director Jan Troell. Andree is played by Max von Sydow. It's dramatic and also feels almost like a documentary. Of course we don't know what they said to each other and what their secret thoughts were, but in the movie they discuss and argue in a way that feels very likely. A good movie, in Swedish but available with English subtitles. I recommend it! The Grenna museum in Gränna with the Andree exhibition is a "scary interesting" experience with all the personal items, handwritten documents and the eerie photographs. Very well worth a visit. I think I might be a bit obsessed about this myself... ;-)
Missing trouser leg!? I would assume pollar bear attack then as well. From the get go I thought they might have met their end from a polar bear... then before we got to that part and sickness was suspected, I thought maybe they had eaten the liver of a polar bear which is deadly. Fascinating story!!
You and your team's style is increasingly unmatched. One of few channels I instantly, reliably click any offering or video put forth from ya'll. thank u Sean and crew. for everything. came for the scary cave horror, stayed for the magic.
Your editor is def pulling their weight, these vids look great! I like the blend of emotional inflection and stoic simplicity your voice has as well. A lot of UA-camrs in this genre have an extremely affectless and flat voice, or a bombastic and hyperbolic overstressed one, I like that you have a soothing middle ground. It's like I'm listening to one of my friends explain their latest research.
Or an annoying British accent Mind you not all Brits have an annoying accent but there seems to be a trend to do historic vids in a specific British voice
The narration also follows by saying 1986, so it's not only the incorrect century but also the incorrect year. I was scratching my head and thinking are these guys cosplayers. Glad I'm not the only one to notice. Total oversight by the editor.
With how horribly their journey began, it's remarkable they survived for that long on their own and in relatively good conditions. They seemed to have a reasonably good food supply and shelter, and were just kind of waiting it out for a while until whatever happened that killed them.
This story was the inspiration for the 1982 film Flight of the Eagle by Swedish director Jan Troell, starring Max Von Sydow as Soloman Andre, it's a great film, I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in this story. Great upload!
I downloaded this video and took it with me to my arctic cabin. Watched it at 4 am under the sun that never sets. Knowing the weather up here and how the winds howl CONSTANTLY I could never imagine thinking "you know what would be a good idea to get to the north pole? MF balloons, yo!" But yeah, this video was so good I had to stop back by to leave a comment. Great story, great narration, excellent use of footage and animation. 10/10
If you’re interested in doing more videos on near fatal hot air balloon, look up the Glaisher/Coxwell expedition of 1862. It was made into a movie in 2019.
What a shame about no autopsies! Those were the times. And those poor men. The balloon ride was Hell to begin with. Thanks for a great story, well told.
(Sorry I haven’t got a source) I have been told western culture had a fear of any dissection post death. The account comes from the penal colony Port Arthur Tasmania. A particularly hardened & vicious criminal was sentenced to death. They exhibited no fear; the sentencing magistrate added the convicted was to be dissected for research. The criminal broke down crying instantly.
@@MadMax-bq6pg Weird and interesting at the same time. Why only in western culture, I wonder? Religion played a huge part in fear of the afterlife. No one wants to go there gutted or leg-less.
Most people don’t know that eating the liver of a polar bear will kill you 😱 it’s something about the way the animals liver functions which makes it toxic to humans if eaten. If they were eating polar bears and were unaware of this fact it is quite possible this is what killed them. 🤔🤷🏼♀️ As always this was a fascinating video and I thank you 🙏 Cheers
Where do you think "Twitter" got its brand image from? Birds that just chill in the nest? People used to use birds as a way of communicating because they understood their habits. Now, kids learn the natural world by watching animal planet while half high on weed and staring at their phone and have no idea about anything, of course youre confused and guffawing. Why would anyone in 2024 actually understand history properly?
@malaciousmark3903 one way communication. How are the carrier pigeons supposed to return to a constantly moving object? I am by no means an expert on carrier pigeons, hopefully not showing my ignorance 😂
The name "Svea" is also a old swedish girl's name. I live about 40km from where Andre was born , "Gränna". In Gränna there is a museum about Andre and his expedition. I can recomend it.
Me too! I have been there and it is "scary interesting". The photographs are the most incredible items. Those camera rolls survived over 30 years on the ice in the middle of the sea. It is an eerie feeling and very sad to see their personal things, knowing how it ended.
My uncle is an avid hot air balloonist, and he’s nucking futs. All balloonists are. I’ve been on a few flights, but stopped after one time when we were at an event with about twenty balloons, and as we were waiting for his balloon to fill, the wind began to really pick up. The forecast hadn’t indicated wind, but soon it was getting really strong, almost gale force. One balloon colored like a strawberry had already been floating a few feet off the ground, and there was a loud crack as its main anchor ropes snapped and the strawberry balloon became a weapon of mass destruction. It immediately rose into the air and crashed into the two nearest balloons on the ground, one of which became tangled up with the strawberry’s basket, and the strawberry dragged the tangled blue balloon through the crowd of people and balloons, sweeping people up and tangling into a mass of partially inflated balloons, which then began to catch fire. The lady pilot of the blue balloon was stuck inside the basket and screaming, and another person jumped out of their basket and fell 20 or 30 feet and broke his legs. Other people were getting knocked down and dragged across the ground, it was absolute mayhem. And the craziest part? My uncle refused to abandon his balloon. While I ran away to hide in the car, he was still out there adjusting the flame on his balloon while chaos erupted all around him. Said the wind would calm down by the time it was ready to fly. Like I said, balloonists are nucking futs.
Сourage bordering on insanity, that kind of man did explorations and crazy expirements so we can now sit safe and warm in our houses. Great story! Where did it happen? May be some local media highlighted it somewhere? Would be very interesting to read and look photos. If you dont mind, can we contact, I am really burning from curiosity to hear some more details about that(dont worry not a journalist, just curious man).
This and Mr. Ballen have been my fav and go to channels for a hot minute now. Great work Sean! I'm always checking for when you drop new material. Amazing job as always! Appreciate it!
10:14 Man, I can't believe they tried flying that balloon all the way from 1896 to 1987. There's no way a bunch of 110+ year old dudes are gonna make that voyage...
Make a video about the Terra Nova Expedition, the journey through the antaractic to the south pole. It was described famously in the book "The Worst Journey In the World". Truly one of the most insane stories I think i've ever read.
As a long time viewer, this is by far my favorite video of yours! Well researched and edited, and the real photos from the recovered camera are awesome! Would have loved for it to be twice as long to allow time to go delve into greater detail with the journal entries of the men's daily lives following the crash. Nice work!
If anyone wants more details on this expedition, Archie's Archives has a 38-minute video. It includes interesting details like the ridiculous items they brought with them (such as fine linen tablecloths) and how the one guy's fiancée never really got over him.
Taking stupid shit on Artic expeditions seems to be a common trait of the old school explorers, for example Captain Scott once took a piano and a gramophone with 100's of records on one of his Artic expeditions.
A Swedish author (Per Olov Sundman), wrote a book many years ago, stating that Andrée was clearly aware, that it couldn't be done to cross the Arctic in his, slightly guided balloon, with a drag rope and sails, but he felt it as his obligation to start anyway, because of the many donations, also from the King! He had constructed a folding boat which the crew used trying to cross the ice after they had landed on the ice, and had taken pictures on plates (Those plates became made into pictures, with American help in the seventies, and still exists). Also a burner for their food, to hang below the highly flammable balloon! They had brought a special hunting gun, a combined shotgun and rifle, I think donated by Husqvarna? But shortly after the start they lost the heavy rope hanging to the ground/ice as part of the "Guiding System", but continued as a free balloon. They also had floats to be dropped in the sea with a message. At least one of those became found by ships. It also became a fine film, made mostly on the heavy ice in the Baltic, with Max von Sydow as Andrée. They have a small museum with the remnants and finds from the end found on Hvideøen, in Andrées hometown of Gränna! The found bodies became buried in Stockholm.
You should do a video on the 1928 failed arctic airship " Italia " it's flight, crash, & rescue. There was a 1969 movie " The Red Tent " starring Sean Connery that told the story, just thought might be a good video for your viewers.
Loving the polar content!!! If you're of the mind to do more, I can recommend looking into the voyage of the Jeannette, the Karluk, the Greely expedition, the incredible story of Ada Blackjack, and as several other people have mentioned Umberto Nobile and the flight of the Italia. There's some great Antarctic stories too--aside from the obvious like Shackleton's Endurance or Scott & Amundsen and the race to the south pole, there's the Belgica Expedition, The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, the Northern Party of Scott's Terra Nova expedition, the Ross Sea Party during Shackleton's Endurance, and Shackleton's last voyage on the Quest. And plenty more!! These are just some of my favorites. Hope you'll be inspired to do more polar stories in the future, truly one of the most exciting and fascinating topics.
Love to see the even MORE insane Arctic attempts by Umberto Nobile's Italia airship in the late 1920s. Powered dirigible holding several people. That ended up crashing, dumping most on the ice but the image that haunts is that half of it--with a few crew trapped aboard as it impacted, split then the big piece began lifting out of control. Realizing their fate, the trapped men used what time was left to throw as many supplies out for those on the ice and were never seen again.
Thank you for telling this story! It's always great to hear a story from your home country. We got to read about Andre's fate in my history class, had a very passionate history teacher
I live about as close to Antarctica as it's possible to be without giving up necessities like supermarkets and Starbucks. The cold winds that blow up from the South Pole are so brutal that the trees along the coastline grow sideways. The idea that anybody would attempt to fly a balloon into a similarly hostile environment is, to use the technical term, BATSHIT CRAZY!
I can't remember what story it was, but there was a team who ate polar bear liver, and it has a toxic amount of vitamin A, producing similar symptoms to the ones described here. Along with the trichinosis, I imagine that's probably what contributed to the illness. The polar bear attack isn't completely out of the question either, it's absolutely possible both things happened.
First class documentary! All of the visual material was relevant, narration was fantastic, story was fascinating. I’m so tired of documentaries that use filler and are thus repetitive and boring for anyone with an average IQ and beyond. Well done and thank you!
There's also the possibility they ate polar bear liver, which is poisonous, just an ounce can be fatal. But its strange that the ones who survived a day or two longer didn't record anything about the first deaths
There is a movie about Andrees Expedition, I saw it in the 1990s. The German title was "der Flug des Adlers" wich means the flight of the eagle. Maybe it' s also here on UA-cam in another language, I will look for this movie right here...
@@Tyra-2534 "Flight of the Eagle" (1982) or the original Swedish title "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd". It was actually nominated for an Oscar too. Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
I love this story so much. There's a Swedish Andre expedition expert named Bea Uusma, she wrote a huge book with loads of interesting bits about the case. Along with coroner notes and diary entries. If it exists in English I do recommend a read :D Or just to flip though the pages.
It's a good read but she doesn't really come up with anything new regarding their deaths.. i live near gränna so i'm quite familiar with this topic, anyone who is interested in this expedition should def go there
No survival training because he'd envisaged a relatively smooth and uneventful voyage?? Reminds me of when Hitler sent out his troops wearing summer gear because he was sure that Russia would be taken before winter set in.
When I heard "hot air balloon" and "Arctic" I immediately assumed this would be about the Nobile/Italia disaster from 1928, but I had never heard of Andree so thanks for bringing this story to light. I wonder if any of the men's physical deterioration could be due to Vitamin A toxicity from eating so much polar bear and seal offal? Not sure it was well understood back then and it could account for the diarrhoea, sickness, neuropathy etc.
This story was told in the movie "The Flight of the Eagle," which was Sweden's nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1982. It was memorably reviewed by Siskel & Ebert; Roger thought it was one of the worst movies he'd ever seen, while Gene called it "shockingly bad."
Got himself and his buddies turned into popsicles with a balloon because deep sea submersibles hadn't been invented yet. No autopsies necessary. All three died of stupidity.
I think I’ve heard this story before and if I remember correctly, it’s been speculated that 1 or 2 of these guys may have died from eating the liver of a polar bear. Their liver is extremely toxic for humans, albeit deadly, due to high Vitamin A content. I’m not 100% sure it was this expedition that that occurred or a different one. Thanks for the upload though, bro! Keep on keepin’ on 👊🏼
Consider 'albeit' as a synonym for 'although.' Because it is. I'm not sure about this expedition, as I'd never heard of it before, but the most famous Arctic expedition I've heard of with polar bear liver involved was that of Dutch explorer Gerrit de Veer. I imagine it has happened multiple times, though.
I beleive you are correct about that being a possibility considered for the demise of 1 or 2 of these guys. I just watched another video about it recently but might be mixing up details with similar excursions I've learned about recently.
They knew about the liver and did not eat it. The most lkely theory nowadays is that Strindberg and Fraenckel were killed by polar bears and that Andree committed suicide. He was alone, had no food, a limited amount of ammunition, and the five month long polar night was beginning. He also knew that no help was coming. :-(
Imagine the kind of camaraderie they formed they formed going through all of these things, in a way it's inspiring to contemplate how those hardships gave them a meaningful bond that kept their optimism apparently intact, despite the dark end...
Why are so many of your old videos unlisted, like the radiation story from the Brazilian hospital, all the mountain climbing disasters. I was looking to share some of those and they're all gone.
They did not have parasites. They had acute vitamin A poisoning from eating the liver of the polar bears. The same thing happened to Mawson's antarctic expedition from eating their sled dogs' liver. But other than those problems, it went pretty well then?
According to the swedish physician and journalist Bea Uusma, who has studied this case for 20 years, the cause of death was a polar bear attack of the two younger guys. One died right away and the other got severely hurt. Being left alone with the LONG and dark winter before him and the guilt of being responsible for their death, André commited suicide with morphine.
I Absolutely Loved listening to this Story being told ! Extremely Descriptive and so Easy to picture whats going on even it Your just Listening to it and not watching the video !!! Congrats to the Team that worked on this Excellent Work !!! Wish I could Express just how Excellent of a job that You Di d !!!
Nope - they inadvertantly poisoned themselves!! A single polar bear liver (about 500 g) has an astonishing 9 million IU of vitamin A, and acute human toxicity occurs at about 300,000 IU! Drowsiness, irritability, abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting are common in overdoses of vitamin "A." Then the central nervous system is affected causung disorientation, tremors and eventual death.
So, can anyone fly over the arctic in even the most outfitted balloon today? It's an interesting technical challenge that would explain a great deal about what the challenges of that environment are and the limits of travel in these kinds of places.
So, something important that was omitted was a diary entry from Andree or Strindberg saying they didn't really fear the polar bears, and would go outside without their rifles. Not only that, Strindberg's clothes were ripped, and there was a hole in his forehead, indicating he had probably been attacked and killed by a polar bear. This really was a blow to the other two, and, whether Fraenkel was attacked by a polar bear or not, his general condition seemed to be worsening rapidly anyway. He also died in his tent, with no boots or mittens on (the only time they would've taken them off was to sleep), so, it's possible he died from an intentional morphine overdose after what happened to Strindberg. Another important omission was just how dangerous it was for them to be eating that much seal and polar bear meat. Particularly dangerous is the liver of the animals, which can cause Vitamin A poisoning if too much is consumed. Also, when they would kill one of these animals, they would carry the meat on their bodies, so it wouldn't freeze. This would raise the temperature of the meat, allowing harmful bacteria to grow. Lastly, we knew from their diaries they ate the meat raw, so botulism was a real possibility. Either way, it's a miracle they survived as long as they did, considering they were feeling the effects of snowblindness, trench foot and some type of illness two months before they died.
Hehe, the text said 1987. Accidents happen. This is probably my second favorite channel I've discovered this year, coming in a close second to the why files. Even with topics I've seen others cover, the "mood" of this channel is amazing and uniquely theirs, imo
Hey everyone! I just wanted to give a huge shoutout to my editor, who has been hitting it out of the park recently with the visuals. Have a great week! - Sean
Big ups, these are starting to look kinda like lemmino videos.
Your Editor is a beast. Dem edits doe.
@10:13 you definitely don't mean 1987. It sounds like you say 1987 several times too. Overall good video!
@@jadenrobertshaw3545 no, these look like Scary Interesting videos :)
Thank you for these videos. Above average and I always learn something interesting ❤❤
"Hey, you guys wanna float over uninhabited regions in a leakyboi?"
Bro my wife got charged for kicking a goat at a petting zoo ☹️
@@kentonbenoit9629 Bring her along man, she can kick baby seals.
It was quite the situation and I get what she did was wrong but don't understand why she got charged for kicking a goat one time you would not believe what happens to those goats over in Afghanistan 🫢
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@@kentonbenoit9629 she was eating all the goat pellets and the goats got mad
I can't believe how long they survived on their own. This is amazing.
I can't believe the amount of confidence you must have to show that photo of yourself to the world. So proud of you.
Real survival unlike the fakes like bear Grylls we see on tv
@@qweds3127bear drinks his own piss and squeezes elephant poop to drink…. Bear is pretty legit, so what he spent a night in a hotel when he was sick
@@Cash4gold84 The entire show is scripted, all episodes. Bear grylls goes to the forest/mountains films and head backs to a hotel or camp. Only to resume filming the next day . He eats worms and likes only for camera otherwise he eats scrumptious meals provided by his crew. This is done with every episode you see . He has even apologized for faking it but continues with the show .
UA-cam "Re: Man Vs. Wild, Bear Grylls is a Phony"
Google "Reasons Why Man Vs. Wild Is Totally Fake looper"
Sorry. Even I was shocked when I first heard it . Lost all respect for the man .
les stroud is the real deal
This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever heard. I can’t believe there were so many red flags yet all those men were still like “yep, we’re good, let’s take off over the arctic.” 🤦🏾♀️
Lol yup men will be men 😅
attic i'm dead
I believe that Andree suspected in his heart that his venture had a rather non-zero chance of ending tragically, but he drew too much attention to expedition and Swedish society had correspondingly high expectations, which made it impossible for him to simply accept that the expedition is poorly prepared and, in fact, preparations must be started from scratch.
Why can't you believe it? Seems pretty reasonable to me that there were people so dumb, even back then. So yeah, not that hard to believe 😅
@@ss2gora0 touché…hence the missing “submersible device” in news recently…folks are really dumb
Another important detail is that they were extremely unprepared for the arctic and brought a lot of unnecessary shit. Like, their clothes were too cold for a start, and instead of bringing you know, useful stuff, they brought champagne and chandeliers and silverware and whatnot because they were only preparing for the fancy reception they’d get when they landed. Andrée ignored all the red flags because all he could think about was the honour and glory he’d receive. He even noticed that the balloon was leaking while they were setting it up and went and filled it up in secret so people wouldn’t notice! They also seemed like, totally unafraid of the polar bears and didn’t realise that they’re vicious killers. We don’t know exactly how they died, but it was probably a combination of bear attacks, malnutrition, disease, hypothermia and too much morphine (which can cause you to not realise you’re freezing). A swedish doctor and writer named Bea uusma have Ben pouring over this case for the last ??? 20 years or something, her book about it is fantastic and I highly recommend it to anyone who understands swedish.
Another important point - Andree did not consider it necessary to study the experience of the survival of the peoples of the North, so the same sleigh was built, let's say, according to the "European" scheme, and not according to the more suitable Inuit one. All of his equipment was bad, except for the assembly boat. And the balloon control system with guides was de facto disabled even during the launch process.
And the biggest misfortune for them was that, as a result of their wanderings, they went into a very remote corner - the island of Kvitøya (aka Gillis Land), which was mostly ice-bound and the approaches to it were extremely difficult. The fact that they were found in 1930 was only possible thanks to a very warm summer.
Andree's expedition is a vivid, textbook example of how not to prepare an expedition. With that level of equipment and training, Andre and the people who trusted and followed him had no chance of survival at all.
A nineteenth-century Stockton Rush.
@@crispindry2815thanks for your valuable contribution to the discussion
@@caramazzola2399 it was valuable, it was a helpful comment if you're not just gonna be butthurt about being wrong.
Perfect. Absolutely perfect comparison.
It seems like some people do these expeditions in the most dangerous way possible sometimes.
*the most fun way possible!! 😂
@@gamiezion **until you disappear into thin air/die 😂
Definitely a "Hold my beer, I saw this in a cartoon, but I think it will work" situation.
When watching these videos (expedition, caving, diving, etc) I've noticed that there's a "should be OK" moment that ends up not being OK. For example, climbing a mountain and getting to the "must go back" point but continuing on because it "should be OK".
@@tomsanders5584 I listen to/read a lot of caving and diving stories
a SURPRISING ammount come from 'experienced' cavers or divers who completely ignored many *very* obvious "YOU WILL DIE HERE" signs, then people are surprised they havent returned from the caves when expected
They didn't even put the sleds together correctly, that's why they were so hard to pull. Also one guy packed an encyclopedia, you'd think it was because it had useful information but no. It was just random stuff that didn't apply to their situation. One guy was probably killed by a polarbear, they found his thermals missing a leg. It looked ripped off like by an animal. One guy lost a few fingernails when putting on his gloves, he noticed a red brown liquid in my glove and he pulled his hand out and found his fingernails had come off(they're in the museum in Gränna, Sweden). Lots of things went so wrong. I highly recommend going to the Polar museum in Gränna, it has so many of the objects they found. It's a tale of men dying from their hubris.
Yup. They were foolish.
With you, MrBallen, and a few history channels, y'all are the equivalent of Saturday morning cartoons for me!
I enjoy his horrible fate videos. He's definitely one of a kind on yt
@@Blood0ftyrants those are what got me hooked and some of the best on YT.
@@JamesFromTexas same haha
MrBallens hand & body movements kill it for me haha, but his stories and storytelling is epic
@@JamesFromTexas yes I’ve been hooked too
I’m slowly turning into a mountaineering expert too 😂😂😂😂
You have to wonder about this guy who opted out because he didn't trust the balloon. How must he have felt as these people never returned? Some mix of relief and undeserved guilt about what, if anything, he could have done maybe. He probably knew he'd been right already when learning about the launch, but he'd have spent the rest of his life very aware that they still hadn't been found.
We may yet find the ballon as ice melts due to warming of the poles,.
Survivor’s guilt is a real bitch.
Nah why would he feel guilty? He had run the calculations and realised straight off the bat it’s a suicide mission with the same balloon. Other people could do the same calculations and come to that conclusion. If they still went, they gambled their life for the chance of glory.
Ekholm himself knew a successful expedition would immortalise him at the risk of death, when the risk got too big he dipped. I’m sure he knew all three of them were dead men walking by the time they left Sweden.
Experts say that if we do not completely abandon fossil fuels, civilization as a whole will cease to exist in 5 years - 2018
If only pride hadn’t blinded the others and they’d listened to him!
As a Swede, a few comments:
- At the time Sweden and Norway were the same country, as part of the "United Kingdoms of Norway and Sweden", you can see the union flag on many of the photos.
- Sweden doesn't have and never had a federal government, "Royal Government" would be more appropriate.
- When their remains were found, one of them, Stringberg I think, had been buried under a cairn of rocks and it is theorized that he was killed in a polar bear attack just days before the other two succumbed.
- Describing the remains as skeletons is not quite accurate, "half-eaten, frozen corpses" would be more accurate as the bodies hadn't really decomposed and polar bears eaten what they could.
- The Trichinosis hypothesis is very old fashioned and these days the theory you outline at the end is generally accepted, that Andrée died of suicide following the deaths of the other two.
- Andrée didn't have morphine bottles but rather blister packs of morphine pills.
That said, this mystery continues to fascinate Swedes to this day and is always a popular subject of discussion if it comes up. As a kid I went to an exhibition featuring some of the recovered items at the Royal Technical Museum in Stockholm. There is also an Andrée museum in his hometown of Gränna.
Andree killed Strindberg
That's a lot that this video got wrong. Disappointing.
I also wonder, considering what they were eating, if vitamin A poisoning didn't come into play here, as we've seen in another Scary Interesting video.
@@kristengottula9337 which video is that? Sounds interesting!
Yes!! This deserves to get pinned. Really love this channel but this vid deteriorated a bit as it went on
Definitely the most detailed coverage of this incident that I've seen. Great video!
Just wanted to say, I found your channel last night, and I'm about 60% through watching all your videos already and I wnated to say Sean, I love the way you listen to feedback and even went about changing things slightly so that disabled fans can listen and enjoy easier and take all feedback so seriously. I've been here not even 24 hours but it genuinely feels like we're all a part of the channel, and as someone with auditory processing issues and being partially deaf, thank you so much for genenuinely listening and working out new ways to bring scary and interesting content to all of us (plus the descriptions of videos for those just listening/with sight impariments are awesome. never seen another channel do this personally). Love the content, loved this video and I can't wait to see what else you discover and share with us.
Amazing! Have a great weekend!
Whacker
"It seemed that the airworthiness was over-exaggerated by the manufacturer"
Turn-of-the-century manufacturer lying about the capabilities of it's products? No waaaaaay
The risks taken when trying to outdo another country in discovery for nationalistic reasons seem to be a theme in a whole class of particularly disastrous historic tragedies. I wonder if stories like that have only slowed because the discoveries that happen to be left to us to make haven't been that dangerous in a while, or spurred the same grand dream of personal glory and nationalistic success. Darkly fitting that it was Norwegians who eventually found these poor guys in the arctic by accident. Should have just handed it to Norway and moved on, I guess. I wonder if the French balloon manufacturers had a similar problem, trying to prove themselves when they really couldn't and never being properly called on it. I wonder about the guy who opted out because the balloon had such problems. How must he have felt?
Always ask the manufacturer, or his son, to join you
Same at power stations "OK, they turned off the supply" ... "Great, touch it then" ... "Hang on, let me check something" - saved more than one person at our place
@@myragroenewegen5426 Yeah, rampant nationalism led to more than one questionable decision back then. Still does.
or, more likely, the balloon wasn't designed or properly tested for/in the arctic conditions it was supposed to perform. Sailing over France, or sailing over the Artic is very different kettle of fish...
@@foo219 It also led to nearly every great achievement. We didn't go to the moon just for the fun of it lol
This is literally something straight out of my nightmares. I've always had a fear of the ocean, icebergs, and everything related to it. And the thought of being stuck in a situation like this would give me a heart attack before the environment gets me.
Then avoid the book "The Terror", by Dan Simmons. It's a novel loosely based upon the failed Franklin expedition to the artic. While hardly factual and downright fanciful (there were no survivors of the real expedition), it's very well written and rather terrifying.
I've been fascinated with the age of polar exploration for a while now, & this has always been one of my favorite stories from it. It's absolutely INCREDIBLE to me that those men managed to survive so long! Sean, if you're interested in doing another video like this, DEFINITELY look into the Airship Italia disaster of 1928. If that story isn't the absolute epitome of "scary interesting," then I don't know what is. To give you just a quick rundown: In 1928 an Italian team led by eccentric Italian General & engineer Umberto Nobile tried to reach the North Pole via dirigible, but crashed, resulting in half the crew spilling out onto the ice & the other half still in the envelope of the airship... which then began to drift away. 😳 One of the survivors "would later recall that he saw the envelope drifting above him, & (starboard engine mechanic) Ciocca halfway out of the starboard engine car staring down in horror." It's a truly fascinating story. Roald Amundsen (the first man to reach both the North Pole & South Pole) actually disappeared himself while helping to search for the survivors. I highly suggest looking into it -- it seems like just the type of thing that would be PERFECT for this channel!
Thanks for this Daile!
Awesome suggestion! I hadn't heard about this before
@@ScaryInteresting It's a really fascinating story! And the further you look into it, the more interesting (& creepy) it gets! After the airship crashed & the envelope started to float away, one of the men still inside the envelope started to throw all of the food & other useful supplies he could find down to the survivors on the ice -- he must have immediately realized that he & the other men trapped inside were basically as good as dead, & those supplies might at least help the survivors to get by until they could be rescued. The envelope of the airship was never found & is presumed to have eventually fell into the sea, killing everyone unlucky enough to remain trapped within.
Many of the survivors were eventually rescued, but if I'm remembering this correctly, there are rumors that one of them either died or committed suicide & was then cannibalized by the others. It's just an all-around fascinating (& terrifying) story.
I've been a MASSIVE fan of your channel for well over a year now & just wanted to say thanks for always putting out such amazing content! Your channel is easily in my top three favorite UA-cam channels of all time. It would be awesome to see you make a video on this disaster, because I'm sure you would do it great justice -- but regardless, I'll keep looking forward to your amazing videos, they're always one of the highlights of my week!
I mean they were armed and in a fertile hunting ground. There are ppl surviving their entire lives under these conditions.
@@dailealexander2055 Yes, there was a rather strange episode with the death of the Swedish geophysicist Malmgren, who left the camp of survivors along with the Italians Zappi and Mariano in order to reach Svalbard. According to the Italians, the exhausted Malmgren himself asked to be left behind. When both Italians were rescued, eyewitnesses noted that Zappi looked good and was wearing Malmgren's warm clothes. Hence the hypothesis that the Italians ate the Swede. But there is no confirmation of this.
I remember this story...more Arctic/Antarctic exploration videos please!
Wow. I didn't realize there were people over 130 years old that can remember that. Was everything actually black and white back then? Lol I am joking by the way.
More coming!
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 what African contribution?
@@ScaryInteresting whatever happened to your original Plura Cave upload from way back when you started this channel? I'm dying to know where it went and why
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 The people from Africa haven't contributed much of anything to modern civilization. Unless you count starving to death in very large numbers, which is a feat in and of itself.
Thank you Sean from Sweden for an EXCELLENT video about this famous and tragic expedition! You tell it so well and interestingly, with many details! I thought of some interesting additional facts that you may already know, or not. :-) 1. Most famous is the love story between Nils Strindberg and his fiancee Anna, the love of his life, whom he was going to marry when he got back. He had a gold locket with him with a lock of Anna's hair in it. In his calendar was a drawing Anna had made of the balloon with the three men, and a girl on the ground waving with a handkerchief. Under the drawing she had written "I can not follow you." Anna eventually married another man, but made a request that her heart should be buried in Nils' grave after her death. It was put there secretly by Nils' brothers and rests in a little box.🖤 2. Nils Strindberg was a close relative of August Strindberg (1849-1912), who is one of Sweden's most famous and popular authors and playwrights, known internationally. 3. I have visited the grave of the members of the Andree expedition. They are buried together at the cemetary Haga Norra where lots of other famous Swedes are buried, and the grave has a large obelisk on top with cut outs in the rock that show the key moments of the expedition. Around the obelisk are placed large rocks brought from the island Vitön where they were found. 4. The Swedish author and physician Bea Uusma is obsessed with the Andree expedition and did research for over 15 years, studying material, letters and autopsy reports (there were autopsies but very superficial). She formed the theory about the polar bear attack, based, among other facts, on Nils Strindberg's missing trouser leg. 5. The movie "Ingenjör Andrees luftfärd" (Engineer Andree's air travel) was made in 1982 by the very talented director Jan Troell. Andree is played by Max von Sydow. It's dramatic and also feels almost like a documentary. Of course we don't know what they said to each other and what their secret thoughts were, but in the movie they discuss and argue in a way that feels very likely. A good movie, in Swedish but available with English subtitles. I recommend it!
The Grenna museum in Gränna with the Andree exhibition is a "scary interesting" experience with all the personal items, handwritten documents and the eerie photographs. Very well worth a visit.
I think I might be a bit obsessed about this myself... ;-)
"Anna requested that her heart be buried in Nil's grave after death"...
these swedes metal af
Missing trouser leg!? I would assume pollar bear attack then as well. From the get go I thought they might have met their end from a polar bear... then before we got to that part and sickness was suspected, I thought maybe they had eaten the liver of a polar bear which is deadly. Fascinating story!!
You and your team's style is increasingly unmatched. One of few channels I instantly, reliably click any offering or video put forth from ya'll.
thank u Sean and crew. for everything. came for the scary cave horror, stayed for the magic.
Your comment made me realize I'm not even subscribed, thought I watch their uploads religiously. Fixed that immediately!
Your editor is def pulling their weight, these vids look great! I like the blend of emotional inflection and stoic simplicity your voice has as well. A lot of UA-camrs in this genre have an extremely affectless and flat voice, or a bombastic and hyperbolic overstressed one, I like that you have a soothing middle ground. It's like I'm listening to one of my friends explain their latest research.
And what type of voice do you have Mr voice of the voiceless?
I want to know what OP’s friends are researching.
Or an annoying British accent
Mind you not all Brits have an annoying accent but there seems to be a trend to do historic vids in a specific British voice
@@engnr_trust7543 Irrelevant, he is right. Lots of hacks out there on YT who read like it's a 3rd grade book report.
Those bombastic voices are an instant skip, lol I can't stand it.
As a Norwegian, I really appreciate these sort of videos, having heard most of these stories growing up. Very well made 👍
Just wanted to let you know at 10:14 the year reads 1987. Hope this is helpful. Really enjoy your videos! 😊
I was giggling at the idea of them being cosplayers
@@sleadaddy lmaooo same
Preface: this channel is awesome. The narration at 10:10 also describes the "failed 1986 attempt".
They time traveled.
The narration also follows by saying 1986, so it's not only the incorrect century but also the incorrect year. I was scratching my head and thinking are these guys cosplayers. Glad I'm not the only one to notice. Total oversight by the editor.
With how horribly their journey began, it's remarkable they survived for that long on their own and in relatively good conditions. They seemed to have a reasonably good food supply and shelter, and were just kind of waiting it out for a while until whatever happened that killed them.
This story was the inspiration for the 1982 film Flight of the Eagle by Swedish director Jan Troell, starring Max Von Sydow as Soloman Andre, it's a great film, I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in this story. Great upload!
I downloaded this video and took it with me to my arctic cabin. Watched it at 4 am under the sun that never sets. Knowing the weather up here and how the winds howl CONSTANTLY I could never imagine thinking "you know what would be a good idea to get to the north pole? MF balloons, yo!"
But yeah, this video was so good I had to stop back by to leave a comment. Great story, great narration, excellent use of footage and animation. 10/10
Bravo, Sean! This is a story that doesn’t get much attention. The hubris of Andree was staggering!
I appreciate you bringing us material like this. Its fresh... Despite these events being hundreds of years old
If you’re interested in doing more videos on near fatal hot air balloon, look up the Glaisher/Coxwell expedition of 1862. It was made into a movie in 2019.
What was the name of the film?
@@retardedferret3912 The Aeronauts.
Oh cool! Thank you fur this! 😊
Thanks! In just find a video… gonna check it out ❤thank u for the suggestion ❤
What a shame about no autopsies! Those were the times. And those poor men. The balloon ride was Hell to begin with. Thanks for a great story, well told.
(Sorry I haven’t got a source) I have been told western culture had a fear of any dissection post death. The account comes from the penal colony Port Arthur Tasmania. A particularly hardened & vicious criminal was sentenced to death. They exhibited no fear; the sentencing magistrate added the convicted was to be dissected for research. The criminal broke down crying instantly.
@@MadMax-bq6pg Weird and interesting at the same time. Why only in western culture, I wonder? Religion played a huge part in fear of the afterlife. No one wants to go there gutted or leg-less.
Most people don’t know that eating the liver of a polar bear will kill you 😱 it’s something about the way the animals liver functions which makes it toxic to humans if eaten. If they were eating polar bears and were unaware of this fact it is quite possible this is what killed them. 🤔🤷🏼♀️ As always this was a fascinating video and I thank you 🙏
Cheers
Overdose of Vitamin A IIRC
@@Pheenixm16
Ah, yes, that’s it!!! Thank you 🙏 I watched a documentary about it a while back.
Cheers
You are right! I just posted a comment relaying the same thing and then I saw you had already mentioned it, but yes, you are absolutely correct!
@@JMazzaTaz
Great minds think alike 😉
Cheers
@@kristimcgowandarkoscellard3126a documentary about eating polar bears?
“The balloon has also been equipped with carrier pigeons” just made me absolutely GUFFAW
Where do you think "Twitter" got its brand image from? Birds that just chill in the nest?
People used to use birds as a way of communicating because they understood their habits. Now, kids learn the natural world by watching animal planet while half high on weed and staring at their phone and have no idea about anything, of course youre confused and guffawing.
Why would anyone in 2024 actually understand history properly?
Hey ur pfp is fatter than mine
Why?
@@Quincy_Morrisya it seems like a great idea. Pretty reliable means of communication all things considered.
@malaciousmark3903 one way communication. How are the carrier pigeons supposed to return to a constantly moving object? I am by no means an expert on carrier pigeons, hopefully not showing my ignorance 😂
The name "Svea" is also a old swedish girl's name. I live about 40km from where Andre was born , "Gränna". In Gränna there is a museum about Andre and his expedition. I can recomend it.
Yes well worth a visit.
Me too! I have been there and it is "scary interesting". The photographs are the most incredible items. Those camera rolls survived over 30 years on the ice in the middle of the sea. It is an eerie feeling and very sad to see their personal things, knowing how it ended.
Thank you! I hope to visit your beautiful country soon :)
Glad to finally see you put this out!
My uncle is an avid hot air balloonist, and he’s nucking futs. All balloonists are. I’ve been on a few flights, but stopped after one time when we were at an event with about twenty balloons, and as we were waiting for his balloon to fill, the wind began to really pick up. The forecast hadn’t indicated wind, but soon it was getting really strong, almost gale force. One balloon colored like a strawberry had already been floating a few feet off the ground, and there was a loud crack as its main anchor ropes snapped and the strawberry balloon became a weapon of mass destruction.
It immediately rose into the air and crashed into the two nearest balloons on the ground, one of which became tangled up with the strawberry’s basket, and the strawberry dragged the tangled blue balloon through the crowd of people and balloons, sweeping people up and tangling into a mass of partially inflated balloons, which then began to catch fire. The lady pilot of the blue balloon was stuck inside the basket and screaming, and another person jumped out of their basket and fell 20 or 30 feet and broke his legs. Other people were getting knocked down and dragged across the ground, it was absolute mayhem.
And the craziest part? My uncle refused to abandon his balloon. While I ran away to hide in the car, he was still out there adjusting the flame on his balloon while chaos erupted all around him. Said the wind would calm down by the time it was ready to fly.
Like I said, balloonists are nucking futs.
Сourage bordering on insanity, that kind of man did explorations and crazy expirements so we can now sit safe and warm in our houses. Great story! Where did it happen? May be some local media highlighted it somewhere? Would be very interesting to read and look photos. If you dont mind, can we contact, I am really burning from curiosity to hear some more details about that(dont worry not a journalist, just curious man).
@@romariorosso9502there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.
@@Perroden Never saw you doing something with courage.
@@romariorosso9502 lol really? Just personal attacks? Guess you can't handle my logic🤣😂🤣
@@Perroden I do not handle small dirty and miserable things, prefer keep my hands clean. Prob you should try this too, if you can.
This and Mr. Ballen have been my fav and go to channels for a hot minute now. Great work Sean! I'm always checking for when you drop new material. Amazing job as always! Appreciate it!
10:14
Man, I can't believe they tried flying that balloon all the way from 1896 to 1987. There's no way a bunch of 110+ year old dudes are gonna make that voyage...
Goof point
not funny buhu
He meant 1897
@@Tosslin nuh uh
Andrea’s Excellent Arctic Adventure! Dude!
The intro, the narration, the research and details you share, plus the visuals 🤌🤌🤌 we can really appreciate the quality of this content.
The visuals are terrific. They seamlessly stitch this story together.
Great video Sean! Your channel is the best :)
"You ready?" "But the balloon is leaking!" "No matter, let's go!" "But, it's laying on the ground empty!" "Stop being Debbie Downer! Drag it!!"
Make a video about the Terra Nova Expedition, the journey through the antaractic to the south pole. It was described famously in the book "The Worst Journey In the World". Truly one of the most insane stories I think i've ever read.
Chris Chan documenter Geno Samuel made a 5 hr long doc that will come out in a few months on his 3.0 channel
Swedish doctor Bea Usma wrote a book about the event. It’s great!
As a long time viewer, this is by far my favorite video of yours! Well researched and edited, and the real photos from the recovered camera are awesome! Would have loved for it to be twice as long to allow time to go delve into greater detail with the journal entries of the men's daily lives following the crash. Nice work!
If anyone wants more details on this expedition, Archie's Archives has a 38-minute video. It includes interesting details like the ridiculous items they brought with them (such as fine linen tablecloths) and how the one guy's fiancée never really got over him.
Taking stupid shit on Artic expeditions seems to be a common trait of the old school explorers, for example Captain Scott once took a piano and a gramophone with 100's of records on one of his Artic expeditions.
Such a fascinating case, thanks for covering it!
“The 1986 attempt”? The fashion sure looked different than I remember 1986 being.
i was thinking the same thing lol
It was a retro look
Steampunks lol
Not long after that in 1991, Branson and Lindstrand successfully crossed the Pacific Ocean in a hot air balloon.
It even says, “1987 Expedition” on the screen when the narrator makes that statement. I don’t remember dressing like that in 1987 either 😂🤣 10:10
This is the closest thing to a documentary about this expedition I can find on UA-cam thank you!
A Swedish author (Per Olov Sundman), wrote a book many years ago, stating that Andrée was clearly aware, that it couldn't be done to cross the Arctic in his, slightly guided balloon, with a drag rope and sails, but he felt it as his obligation to start anyway, because of the many donations, also from the King! He had constructed a folding boat which the crew used trying to cross the ice after they had landed on the ice, and had taken pictures on plates (Those plates became made into pictures, with American help in the seventies, and still exists). Also a burner for their food, to hang below the highly flammable balloon! They had brought a special hunting gun, a combined shotgun and rifle, I think donated by Husqvarna?
But shortly after the start they lost the heavy rope hanging to the ground/ice as part of the "Guiding System", but continued as a free balloon. They also had floats to be dropped in the sea with a message. At least one of those became found by ships.
It also became a fine film, made mostly on the heavy ice in the Baltic, with Max von Sydow as Andrée.
They have a small museum with the remnants and finds from the end found on Hvideøen, in Andrées hometown of Gränna! The found bodies became buried in Stockholm.
Hi Sean, fantastic vid as always 👍 I love the stories of explorers. Could you please cover the last expedition of Burke and Wills from Australia 🇦🇺
You should do a video on the 1928 failed arctic airship " Italia " it's flight, crash, & rescue. There was a 1969 movie " The Red Tent " starring Sean Connery that told the story, just thought might be a good video for your viewers.
Loving the polar content!!! If you're of the mind to do more, I can recommend looking into the voyage of the Jeannette, the Karluk, the Greely expedition, the incredible story of Ada Blackjack, and as several other people have mentioned Umberto Nobile and the flight of the Italia. There's some great Antarctic stories too--aside from the obvious like Shackleton's Endurance or Scott & Amundsen and the race to the south pole, there's the Belgica Expedition, The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, the Northern Party of Scott's Terra Nova expedition, the Ross Sea Party during Shackleton's Endurance, and Shackleton's last voyage on the Quest. And plenty more!! These are just some of my favorites. Hope you'll be inspired to do more polar stories in the future, truly one of the most exciting and fascinating topics.
Love to see the even MORE insane Arctic attempts by Umberto Nobile's Italia airship in the late 1920s. Powered dirigible holding several people. That ended up crashing, dumping most on the ice but the image that haunts is that half of it--with a few crew trapped aboard as it impacted, split then the big piece began lifting out of control. Realizing their fate, the trapped men used what time was left to throw as many supplies out for those on the ice and were never seen again.
I like to think they are out there still orbiting earth with the Russian source dog
Thank you for telling this story!
It's always great to hear a story from your home country.
We got to read about Andre's fate in my history class, had a very passionate history teacher
I live about as close to Antarctica as it's possible to be without giving up necessities like supermarkets and Starbucks. The cold winds that blow up from the South Pole are so brutal that the trees along the coastline grow sideways. The idea that anybody would attempt to fly a balloon into a similarly hostile environment is, to use the technical term, BATSHIT CRAZY!
Are you in the Falklands perchance, or Patagonia ( is Patagonia near there ) im Scottish so we are sorta middle 't road
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I love these expedition videos. Keep doing what you are doing
I can't remember what story it was, but there was a team who ate polar bear liver, and it has a toxic amount of vitamin A, producing similar symptoms to the ones described here. Along with the trichinosis, I imagine that's probably what contributed to the illness. The polar bear attack isn't completely out of the question either, it's absolutely possible both things happened.
I love how detailed your videos are. Truly astonishing, at least to me. Great work 👌
You said and wrote 1986 and 1987 a few times 😊
Great video as always. Love the channel
1800, 1900. Same difference.
I’m going to say this is the most interesting story I have heard so far. Great job!
I love these old expedition/survival stories. Anyone know any other channels that have these types of videos?
Id heard this story before, but not in this level of detail. Kudos to you and your editor. Pretty good.
With all those empty morphine bottles makes me wonder if Andre overdosed himself on purpose.
Once he was alone, with no hope of rescue, it kinda makes sense. His fate was that or starvation/hypothermia.
@@theedmeeand few people can deal with isolation.
First class documentary! All of the visual material was relevant, narration was fantastic, story was fascinating. I’m so tired of documentaries that use filler and are thus repetitive and boring for anyone with an average IQ and beyond. Well done and thank you!
The Norwegians wanted one of these nice balloons too - but they couldn’t a-fjord it!
There's also the possibility they ate polar bear liver, which is poisonous, just an ounce can be fatal. But its strange that the ones who survived a day or two longer didn't record anything about the first deaths
How is this not a movie or TV show, it is immensely more interesting and complex than anything Hollywood is putting out and it’s a true story!
There is a movie about Andrees Expedition, I saw it in the 1990s. The German title was "der Flug des Adlers" wich means the flight of the eagle.
Maybe it' s also here on UA-cam in another language, I will look for this movie right here...
@@Tyra-2534 "Flight of the Eagle" (1982) or the original Swedish title "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd". It was actually nominated for an Oscar too. Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
that was so much fun! Subscribed.
Thanks to the editor: the visuals made a huge difference. Super engaging
The decisions made in this story stressed me out more than the outcomes.
It’s crazy that I subbed to Scary Interesting back when he only had 5-10k subs. I knew he was going to blow up! Keep up the great videos!
I love this story so much. There's a Swedish Andre expedition expert named Bea Uusma, she wrote a huge book with loads of interesting bits about the case. Along with coroner notes and diary entries. If it exists in English I do recommend a read :D Or just to flip though the pages.
It's a good read but she doesn't really come up with anything new regarding their deaths..
i live near gränna so i'm quite familiar with this topic, anyone who is interested in this expedition should def go there
No survival training because he'd envisaged a relatively smooth and uneventful voyage?? Reminds me of when Hitler sent out his troops wearing summer gear because he was sure that Russia would be taken before winter set in.
banging out these heavy hitter stories! you deserve to have millions if subs just keep it up, you could be a Nexpo of this genre
No matter how many different times I hear this story, it never gets old. Absolutely fascinating.
When I heard "hot air balloon" and "Arctic" I immediately assumed this would be about the Nobile/Italia disaster from 1928, but I had never heard of Andree so thanks for bringing this story to light. I wonder if any of the men's physical deterioration could be due to Vitamin A toxicity from eating so much polar bear and seal offal? Not sure it was well understood back then and it could account for the diarrhoea, sickness, neuropathy etc.
Once again thank u for the amazing video!! 💙💙
I'm guessing it was vitamin A toxicity caused by eating bear, seal, etc liver. This would explain the blurred vision and it can kill quickly.
This story was told in the movie "The Flight of the Eagle," which was Sweden's nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1982. It was memorably reviewed by Siskel & Ebert; Roger thought it was one of the worst movies he'd ever seen, while Gene called it "shockingly bad."
Another great story! You make learning fun! 😊❤
Was Andre a forefather of the recent submarine inventor who killed people looking for the titanic?
superb content - have now watched two of your videos and they are both superbly written and produced.
There is a reason why people like comfy chairs and warm living rooms.
cause they are weak and pathetic.
Excellent video as always. You always choose good topics.
Got himself and his buddies turned into popsicles with a balloon because deep sea submersibles hadn't been invented yet. No autopsies necessary. All three died of stupidity.
Excellent film guys, love the new format, well worth the extra wait
I think I’ve heard this story before and if I remember correctly, it’s been speculated that 1 or 2 of these guys may have died from eating the liver of a polar bear. Their liver is extremely toxic for humans, albeit deadly, due to high Vitamin A content. I’m not 100% sure it was this expedition that that occurred or a different one. Thanks for the upload though, bro! Keep on keepin’ on 👊🏼
Consider 'albeit' as a synonym for 'although.' Because it is.
I'm not sure about this expedition, as I'd never heard of it before, but the most famous Arctic expedition I've heard of with polar bear liver involved was that of Dutch explorer Gerrit de Veer. I imagine it has happened multiple times, though.
I beleive you are correct about that being a possibility considered for the demise of 1 or 2 of these guys. I just watched another video about it recently but might be mixing up details with similar excursions I've learned about recently.
They knew about the liver and did not eat it. The most lkely theory nowadays is that Strindberg and Fraenckel were killed by polar bears and that Andree committed suicide. He was alone, had no food, a limited amount of ammunition, and the five month long polar night was beginning. He also knew that no help was coming. :-(
@@mayday6916 I would have found a hot polar bear chick and shacked up with her during the long winter instead of becoming a do it yourselfer.
They didnt die of thrichonisis. They where killed by bears + suicide
Imagine the kind of camaraderie they formed they formed going through all of these things, in a way it's inspiring to contemplate how those hardships gave them a meaningful bond that kept their optimism apparently intact, despite the dark end...
Why are so many of your old videos unlisted, like the radiation story from the Brazilian hospital, all the mountain climbing disasters. I was looking to share some of those and they're all gone.
They did not have parasites. They had acute vitamin A poisoning from eating the liver of the polar bears. The same thing happened to Mawson's antarctic expedition from eating their sled dogs' liver. But other than those problems, it went pretty well then?
Didn't seem like a good idea at all.
According to the swedish physician and journalist Bea Uusma, who has studied this case for 20 years, the cause of death was a polar bear attack of the two younger guys. One died right away and the other got severely hurt. Being left alone with the LONG and dark winter before him and the guilt of being responsible for their death, André commited suicide with morphine.
"Undeterred by this criticism..." ;D Yep, This ain't gonna be good.
I Absolutely Loved listening to this Story being told ! Extremely Descriptive and so Easy to picture whats going on even it Your just Listening to it and not watching the video !!! Congrats to the Team that worked on this Excellent Work !!! Wish I could Express just how Excellent of a job that You Di d !!!
Nope - they inadvertantly poisoned themselves!! A single polar bear liver (about 500 g) has an astonishing 9 million IU of vitamin A, and acute human toxicity occurs at about 300,000 IU! Drowsiness, irritability, abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting are common in overdoses of vitamin "A." Then the central nervous system is affected causung disorientation, tremors and eventual death.
I love the stories you find. Keep up the great research.
So, can anyone fly over the arctic in even the most outfitted balloon today? It's an interesting technical challenge that would explain a great deal about what the challenges of that environment are and the limits of travel in these kinds of places.
The Chinese probably :)
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The feat was accomplished, for the only time, by David Hempleman-Adams in 2000. There's a book about it, _At the Mercy of the Winds._
It has. Balloons can go anywhere the wind blows
@@Spearca Oh wow. Good thing I checked on my comments! New reading material!
So, something important that was omitted was a diary entry from Andree or Strindberg saying they didn't really fear the polar bears, and would go outside without their rifles. Not only that, Strindberg's clothes were ripped, and there was a hole in his forehead, indicating he had probably been attacked and killed by a polar bear. This really was a blow to the other two, and, whether Fraenkel was attacked by a polar bear or not, his general condition seemed to be worsening rapidly anyway. He also died in his tent, with no boots or mittens on (the only time they would've taken them off was to sleep), so, it's possible he died from an intentional morphine overdose after what happened to Strindberg.
Another important omission was just how dangerous it was for them to be eating that much seal and polar bear meat. Particularly dangerous is the liver of the animals, which can cause Vitamin A poisoning if too much is consumed. Also, when they would kill one of these animals, they would carry the meat on their bodies, so it wouldn't freeze. This would raise the temperature of the meat, allowing harmful bacteria to grow. Lastly, we knew from their diaries they ate the meat raw, so botulism was a real possibility.
Either way, it's a miracle they survived as long as they did, considering they were feeling the effects of snowblindness, trench foot and some type of illness two months before they died.
Balloon leaks helium constantly but let’s try to float it over the arctic anyway. Insane is an understatement.
Well ice is just solid water and water has two hydrogen atoms so they could've just refilled the balloon with water what were they thinking smh /s
Hehe, the text said 1987. Accidents happen. This is probably my second favorite channel I've discovered this year, coming in a close second to the why files. Even with topics I've seen others cover, the "mood" of this channel is amazing and uniquely theirs, imo
I think everyone knows it’s 1887 guys just saying
Was gonna say.
It was 1897 though
Thanks so much Sean 👍👍👍
We went from 1886 to 1987 even on the screen. Lol
yep he said 1986, but screen said 1987 I was about to say.
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I've been bindge watching these videos! Awesome work, sir.