Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

Four Bowdoin Boys set out to reach the Falls, but only two completed the journey.

Late into the expedition, Ernest Young injured his hand. The group made the difficult decision to send him back with Warren Smith as an escort.

Austin Cary later explained the distress the group felt in sending Young and Smith back, telling his audience at Chickering Hall in New York City, "They had helped get over the hardest part of the road, and it was a great disappointment to them, especially to Smith who was all right, to turn back."