Joseph Henrich

And so they were going to have to winter again.

And that seemed like that was going to be a problem.

Their leader, Franklin, promptly died.

So the men were trapped in the ice and they were faced with a challenge of living off the land because they have to see if they can use their big brains and great intelligence to figure out how to do something very basic, which is surviving in the Arctic.

What happened?

Well, things did not go well.

So the men eventually left the ship and they began trying to survive on King William's Island.

They left some notes along the way, which were later found, and the ships have soon been found.

So we're not exactly sure what happened, although we know from tales from the Inuit bands that they encountered that there was probably some cannibalism going on.

One Inuit story has them first encountering them and beginning to exchange some meat.

But then they realize the men are carrying frozen limbs.

And it turned out frozen limbs are their comrades, probably.

And then the men all just disappear and leave no trace of them other than the stories and the minds of the Inuit.

It led to a big rescue expedition.

So explorers from all around the world converged on the Canadian Arctic to try to find these guys.

Yeah, it's amazing.

The group, the Neskallit that was living there, Inuit, their word for the island that Franklin was trapped on is land of fat.

Because for them, it was a rich environment that they could live on in winter on the ice and hunt seals and in other seasons, shoot caribou with their bows.

They could render seal blubber or seal fat into oil that they could use for lights, for illumination and heating.

They could spear salmon during certain seasons.