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Photo by George Rice/National Archives: Only 6 of the 22 men who posed for this 1881 photo, just before they set out for the Arctic on a government-funded expedition, returned alive. Their leader was Adolphus Washington Greely, the bearded man seated in the center. Like most of the others, the photographer, seated at right, died of starvation before a rescue ship arrived.