Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen pulling sledge with a kayak and sail, on the way south after spending the winter on Franz Joseph Land. Water color from approximately 1897. From a photo (3c142). One of the pictures from the expedition with arctic ship toward the North Pole in the period June 24, 1893 to August 13, 1896. According to the plan, the ship was to drift in the ice with the ocean current from the coast of Siberia across the North Pole to Greenland. In March 1895, Fridtjof Nansen, together with a companion, set out with dogsledges on a hazardous expedition on skis, in an attempt to reach the pole itself.