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This book is a record of Arctic exploration activities. American explorer Peary tells how he led the expedition team after repeated failures for 25 years. Finally, with the help of the Eskimos, he set foot on the northernmost point of the earth for the first time on behalf of mankind. In 1891, Peary organized an expedition to conduct serious exploration of North Greenland, which had never been reached before. He reached Greenland's northern coast, thus proving that Greenland was a large island. Therefore, the northernmost part of Greenland was named Piriland. During the expedition, Piri also discovered the world's heaviest meteorite known to date. This meteorite weighs 90 tons and is now preserved in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In the next 12 years, Peary conducted many more exploration voyages to Greenland and learned to live like an Eskimo. Yet on each voyage, Peary managed to get closer to his ultimate goal - the North Pole. In 1909, Pirie organized a capable expedition team. The team members rotated regularly during the expedition. Finally, Pirie and a black assistant Matthew Hansen launched an attack on the North Pole. They arrived at the North Pole on April 6. In 1911, for this achievement, Peary was appointed rear admiral of the United States Navy.