In 1986, Dr. Counter traveled to northern Greenland on a scientific
mission and found the eighty year-old sons of North Pole discoverers
Rear Admiral
Robert Peary and Matthew A. Henson. The sons' mothers were
Polar Eskimo women who met the discoverers during their 1906
expedition. Dr. Counter brought Anaukaq Henson and Kali Peary, and
twelve members of their families, to the United States on May 29, 1987.
The sons laid wreathes on their fathers' grave-sites.