6
96 min
A team of scientists, field guides and a descendant of U.S. polar explorer Adolphus Greely set out to retrace the 1881 Lady Franklin Bay Expedition’s perilous attempt to build a scientific research station on Ellesmere Island near the North Pole. Chronicle their modern-day journey by kayak with a historical retelling of the Greely expedition through diary entries, letters and archival photographs.
| Name | Character | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Smith | Himself | Unowned | |
| Bob Saunders | Himself | Unowned | |
| Julia Szucs | Herself | Unowned | |
| Robson Moser | Himself | Unowned | |
| Scott Simper | Himself | Unowned | |
| James Shedd | Himself | Unowned | |
| Tom Stere | Himself | Unowned | |
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Cedric Smith | Narrator | Unowned |
| John McClain | Adolphus Greely | Unowned | |
| Brian Pkatt | Frederick Kislingbury | Unowned | |
| Glenn Gaud | Brian Brainard | Unowned | |
| Thomas Keating | Charles Henry | Unowned | |
| Charles Hughes | Inuit hunter | Unowned | |
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William Sadler | Adolphus Greely (voice) | Unowned |
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Portland Helmich | Henrietta Greely (voice) | Unowned |
| Stephen Thorn | Pavy and Lockwood (voices) | Unowned | |
| Steve Cooper | Rice (voice) | Unowned |