North Pole by Boat
By Rocky Thompson on April 29th, 2010
The North Pole is an uninviting place. Besides the obvious freezing cold, you’re dealing with a frozen sea surrounded by landmass. That means days of trekking can be lost as the icescape shifts, and though you trek ahead 14 miles, you end up two miles farther from the Pole than where you began that day. While loads of people summit Everest every year, relatively few have successfully made an overland trek to the North Pole.
Now a few guys have decided to make it harder on themselves. They’re going to try to make the trip by rowboat. They’ll depart from Resolute Bay in Canada, and navigate shifting ice floes and miserable weather between portaging their boat over the ice. The good news is that they’re also going to be recording and broadcasting the entire expedition, so we can watch it from the comfort of our couches.
via Wend
