Are you just asking what it was that these two men
accomplished? If so, the answer is that they were the first two people that we know of to reach
the North Pole.
There have been a couple of controversies about this
feat, however. First of all, when the two returned from reaching the North Pole (this was in
1909) they found that another American was claiming to have gotten there first. This other man's
claim was discredited a couple of years later.
There is also some
amount of controversy over the fact that Henson never got much credit for being part of the
expedition. This was largely because he was African-American at a time when racial equality was
not on most people's minds.
Ironically enough, we tend to forget
that there were 4 Eskimos along with Peary and Henson. We may remember Henson now, but the
Eskimos still don't get much credit...
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