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N-4 DOWN: the search for the Arctic airship Italia

Welcome to The Explorers Club Public Lecture Series - https://explorers.org/events/detail/n... Learn more about The Explorers Club at - https://explorers.org/ Follow Us:   / explorersclub     / theexplorersclubnyc     / the_explorers_club   -- The crash of the airship "Italia" in May 1928 is one of the Arctic’s most tragic episodes, and most enduring ­mysteries. Mark Piesing will first take us back to an era when it was believed that there was undiscovered land near the North Pole. Explorers like Roald Amundsen realized that the future of Polar exploration was in the air, and in a zeppelin - but not that a new kind of explorer, the aeronaut, could replace them. It was an era where new technology meant the public at home could follow the daring adventures of the aeronauts in near real-time, and new political forces were adept at exploiting their stories to shape public opinion. Piesing will continue with Amundsen’s failed attempt to fly to the North Pole in 1925 and his fateful decision to try again in an airship designed by Italian genius engineer, anti-fascist and aeronaut Umberto Nobile. The Last Viking thought he was hiring a chauffeur to fly him over the North Pole and on to Alaska, but he also had to deal with Nobile’s personal thirst for glory, and Mussolini’s decision to use the flight as propaganda for his new regime. While the flight in 1926 was widely considered to be a triumph, making the front page of The New York Times, Amundsen and Nobile quickly fell out over who should take credit for it. Two years later Nobile returned to the North Pole to complete a series of high-risk long distant flights over the Arctic ice, from which many Fascists hoped he wouldn’t return from. Tragically, the Italia crashed returning from the North Pole, the shortest of the flights, plunging the ill-prepared survivors into a battle for survival on the sea ice, and launching the largest Arctic rescue operation in history. The fate of a third of the crew is still unknown today. The public were gripped by the bravery of the pilots sent to find them, the rumors of cannibalism among the survivors, the story of the woman who joined the rescue effort, and the disappearance of Amundsen on his flight to rescue his Italian rival. His plane was never seen again. Nobile then agreed to be rescued first from the Ice: an act of cowardice that gave his enemies exactly what they wanted to destroy him. In the end, it wouldn’t be the aeronauts who saved his men, but the icebreaker Krassin. Slowly the Soviet ship fought its way through the ice to within 100 yards of the survivors, giving Joseph Stalin and his regime the triumph they craved. The lecture will end with a discussion as to whether the melting Arctic ice will solve the mysteries of the Italia airship. Mark Piesing is a freelance journalist. His work has appeared regularly in BBC Future, The Guardian, the I paper/ The Independent, Wired and The Economist. His first piece for The Smithsonian's "Air and Space" magazine "Across the channel in a Nazi Helicopter" has been published. Piesing's "The plane too ahead of its time" was included in BBC Future's Best of 2020 Collection, "The deepest hole we have ever dug" was included in BBC Future's Best of 2019 Collection, and "Silicon Valley's 'suicide pill' for mankind" was one of UnHerd's Best of 2018. Mark Piesing lives in Oxford with his wife, children, and a dog. He is working on a proposal for his next book. With an introduction from and hosted by Club Fellow Dr. Martin L. Greene M.D.