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It's
much easier to tell a story about a trip or an expedition that you
didn't take than to actually make the trip. But the tallest tales are
figured out to be hoaxes eventually. For example:
Frederick
Cook almost certainly set foot in many places where previously no
person had before—but the New York-born explorer is also seen as one of
modern exploration’s most notorious fraudsters. He participated in three
significant expeditions between 1891 and 1903, two of them into the
Arctic and the latter a circumnavigation of Alaska’s Mount McKinley,
also known as Denali. In 1906, he set forth on another McKinley outing,
this time returning home to report that he had summited the 20,320-foot
peak, which had never been climbed before. The claim stood the test of
time for only three years, when the true story came spilling out: Cook
had taken his summit photo on a tiny mountain 19 miles from McKinley’s
peak.
Suspicions about Cook's Mount McKinley climb
escalated after his claim to have reached the North Pole in 1909 was
disputed. But that's another story in the list. The nine stories at
Smithsonian include swimming, racing, sailing, and several mountain
summits.
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