What an adventure this must have been for these two guys. An expedition to the North Pole!
And the first adventures to make it to the pole in the summer time.
The reason for this trek?
To call attention to Global Warming and the fact that if things continue the way they are right now, all ice could be gone from the pole within the next 50 years...and thus the polar bears that call this area of the world home could be facing extinction.
This was the pair's second try, having started the same trek last year only to find grueling conditions that stopped their adventure back then....
What things they must have witnessed already.
According to the story below, they encountered one of those great beasts (the polar bear) already, along with numerous other cool sights.
Sadly the trek for these two is now over as the one part of the adventerous pair has hurt his back due to all the "sloshing" through the "very thin" ice pack in "Santa's homeland".
These guys should be proud of what they accomplished. They have just had an adventure that doesnt not happen to very many people in a million lifetimes much less one.
I applaud them for their courage and adventurous spirit.
A link to their online blog detailing their adventures below:
http://www.projectthinice.org/blog/
...and the story as the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal Online reports it on the end of their trek to the northern most region of our planet:
JS Online:Explorers reach North Pole
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