Limited Edition Henson Coffee Blend
We strongly believe in celebrating the past, present, and future of exploration through our social media content, blog posts, podcast conversations, and celebrated coffee blends.
As much as we would love to have every single explorer featured our coffee bags and have a coffee bag made for all explorers this is just not possible so our solution is Limited Edition Coffee Blends and on this edition, we are celebrating Matthew Henson.


Matthew Henson.
You will be able to learn more about Mr. Henson through our digital media channels, but here is a quick summary and an introduction to the Henson Coffee Blend.
Matthew Alexander Henson was an American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over nearly 23 years. They spent a total of 18 years on expeditions together.
Their first Arctic expedition together was in 1891–92. Henson served as a navigator and craftsman, and was known as Peary’s “first man”. Like Peary, he studied Inuit survival techniques. During their 1908–09 expedition to Greenland, Henson was one of the six men – including Peary and four Inuit assistants – who claimed to have been the first to reach the geographic North Pole.
In interviews, Henson identified as the first member of the party to reach what they believed was the pole. Their claim had gained widespread acceptance but in 1989, Wally Herbert published research that found that their expedition records were unreliable and indicated an implausibly high speed during their final push for the pole and that the men could have fallen 30–60 miles (48–97 km) short of the pole due to navigational errors.


Henson achieved a degree of fame as a result of participating in the expedition, and in 1912 he published a memoir titled A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. As he approached old age, his exploits received renewed attention. In 1937 he was the first African American to be made a life member of The Explorers Club; in 1948 he was elevated to the club’s highest level of membership.
In 1944 Henson was awarded the Peary Polar Expedition Medal, and he was received at the White House by Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. In 1988 he and his wife were re-interred at Arlington National Cemetery. In 2000 Henson was posthumously awarded the Hubbard Medal by the National Geographic Society.

Please look through our online store and find your perfect blend. Remember we roast and ship once a week on a Tuesday to ensure you get the freshest coffee for your next adventure.
We look forward to shipping our coffees to your doorstep and you sharing your expedience’s with us. Remember with every bag of coffee we sell 10% of the sales price goes towards the Curiosity Fund
Sending you off on your next adventure, coffee in hand.
John & Team