Tragedy on the Ice
Andrew Rutledge | Spring 2023When a faculty member recommends his prize pupil for a daring expedition in Greenland, disaster strikes on multiple fronts.
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Bentley Historical LibraryAn Arctic Escape
Madeleine Bradford | Winter 2021With the world watching, two pilots went down over Greenland in 1928. Their rescue would hinge on William Hobbs, a professor-turned-adventurer leading U-M’s Greenland Expedition. His papers at the Bentley reveal how, in order to get everyone out alive, he’d have to face peril again and again.
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Bentley Historical LibraryIn the Footsteps of Hobbs
Madeleine Bradford | Winter 2021Patterning after U-M Professor William Hobbs' 1926 Greenland expedition, U-M Professor Perry Samson led his 2019 undergraduate research expedition in ways that both aligned with and broke away from the 1926 expedition. With a marked effort to learn about the local Greenland culture, Professor Samson and his team expanded both the breadth and scope of this expedition.
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