Arab explorer Ahmad ibn Fadlan had a bad day when he tried to explore Russia on camels. Larry Walters had a worse day when he attached 42 balloons to a garden chair and floated away. But a survey team had the worst day in exploration when it climbed the wrong mountain in Antarctica so it named the peak Mistake
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