Preparations at camp, 16 kilometers from the ship. This was Nansen's and Johansen's first attempt at reaching the North Pole on skis with the aid of dogs. They had to turn around because the equipment and the furclothing was way too heavy. 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 on a hazardous expedition with skis and dogsledges, in an attempt to reach the pole itself.