Notable Events
- The first person to climb Alaska's Brooks Range from Point Hope to the Mackenzie River.
- Made the first traverse of Axel Heiberg Island, northern Canada.
- Crossing the sea ice of the Bering Straits, including traveling through Eskimo villages of then Soviet-controlled eastern Siberia, earning the name "the boy who crossed the Bering Straits." Upon his return, the FBI detained and released Schmitt without charge.
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