Posted on 06/15/2005 3:01:55 PM PDT by grundle
It took 2 1/2 years for polar explorers Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen to plan their trek across the Arctic Ocean.
But once launched, it took only three weeks for it to fall apart.
Amid a stretch of extraordinarily heavy snowfall, strong winds and broken and shifting ice, the two men from Grand Marais, Minn., who had hoped to become the first adventurers to cross the Arctic Ocean in summer, abandoned their expedition Thursday after advancing only 45 miles in 24 days.
Conditions were so treacherous, in fact, that the men, who had hoped to make the crossing to call attention to global warming and the receding polar ice cap, couldn't be picked up and airlifted out by helicopter until Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
I am currently reading a book about Arctic exploration and I would tell them like the whalers told the British Navy...start Earlier!
These Arctic 'explorers' should read history instead of reading their own propaganda.
According to Crichton's sources, the Antarctic polar ice is actually thickening.
Pray for W and Our Troops
ping
My wife and I are now planning this for our next vacation. I can't wait! I don't get 24 days vacation, so we'll have to really haul ass.....weather and global warming permitting...
FMCDH(BITS)
Or you could just get in your car and drive the 45 miles in 45 minutes.
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