Enthusiasm and natural fitness with him took the place of systematic training.

But with him, as with so many others in this world, the attainment of the threshold of his ambition proved to be but opening the door to death.

By a sledge journey from his ship he reached Cape Brevoort, above latitude 82, at that time the farthest north yet attained, but the exertion proved too much for him, and he had scarcely regained his ship when he died.

His name will live, however, in the annals of the Arctic, for his contributions to geographical knowledge were many and precious.
[Illustration: THE SHIP WAS CAUGHT IN THE ICE PACK] The men who survived him determined to continue his work, and the next summer two fought their way northward a few miles beyond the point attained by Hall.

But after this achievement the ship was caught in the ice-pack, and for two months drifted about, helpless in that unrelenting grasp.