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The story of Andrée part II (The finding of photographs and equipment)

Picture I https://gamesandtehories.blogspot.com/ Kimmo Huosionmaa When Salomon Andrée's equipment and photographs were found in 1930 over 30 years after those men's death, was that case actually a miracle. There were more questions about that case and the first one was the age of his company. The two men who left with him were 27 years old Knut Fraekel (1870-1897) and 25 years old Nils Strindberg (1872-1897). Andrée (1854-1897) himself was 43. So why Andée choose those two men for his trip? Why didn't he take elder persons, who would have more life experience with him to that fatal trip? Was there something, what that man wanted to hide? Were those two men were chosen for the company, because they wanted to be addicted about Andrée, who was eldest and that too him the position, where he was the absolute authority. The balloon was put in the silk, and that material is quite difficult to repair. Sometimes there were claiming, that Andrée was murdered because there...