A former cartoonist, Fiala was just ending a stint as Spanish-American War correspondent for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle when he signed on as photographer for an unsuccessful expedition to the North Pole in 1901. He made the first moving pictures ever taken in the Arctic and two years later led his own team to the region, funded in part by the National Geographic Society. Fiala’s group mapped a number of Arctic islands but never quite made it to the Pole.  Accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on expeditions to the Amazon region.

Lodge: Kane 454 (N.Y.)
Residence: Jersey City