Over the Top of the World

Overview

Soaring over unforgiving Arctic expanses, Carl Ben Eielson defied death to etch his name among the most daring aviators ever known. From meager roots in North Dakota, Eielson developed an insatiable thirst for conquering the skies. With frozen fortitude, Eielson achieved the unthinkable-the first aerial crossing of the North Pole. But the lure of heroics proved fateful. During a harrowing 1930 rescue mission in remote Siberia, fortune abandoned him. This gripping saga follows Eielson's meteoritic rise from prairie obscurity to Arctic legend, culminating in that ill-fated final flight into the annals of adventure.