A British team is planning to sett of a trip to conquer the center of the Arctic Ocean where there is a Pole that hasn’t been walked on yet. Artic Pole is the point that it’s further from any speck of land. This trip means more than 1000Km trough an unforgiving place in the most remote location.
Next year’s expedition will be the third attempt of Jim McNeill’s. The other two times he can’t complete his plans due to a heavy storm the first time and because of an infection he gets at the second time.
The story said that was in 1950 when the Pole was reheard for the first time by a Soviet Expedition. This Expedition builds a hut there and they also put a bust of Lenin. When in 2007 the station was revisited the bust was the only thing visible in the snow.
A lot of explorers have thought that they have been in the Artic Pole: first the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins in 1927 and then the British Wally Herbert after 5900Km by feet over the Arctic Ocean in the 60s, but was McNeill who first thinks that the coordinates were wrong and effectivity they were. A Scientific group, using their satellites, could prove that the real “Northern Pole of Inaccessibility” was 214Km away from the old point.
In 2013 were announced the new coordinates so it means that, at the moment, nobody has arrived at the “real Pole” yet.
The Pole can be reached by trekking across the ice that covers the ocean. The temperature in this part of the world can be -50C in winter and from October to March is completely dark. But even so McNeill has planned his third trip. It will take theme about 80 days and they will measuring the ice to help to compile information about who is the ice breaking up.
The climate change is changing the Pole quickly. In few years, the Inaccessible point could be reached easily because of the boats could sail more Km inside the ice. This fact makes the expedition harder and dangerous. McNeill and his team will be starting the journey this winter and they hope to can be cross the ice before it starts to melt.
Well, it seems an amazing expedition through the Pole and I really look up to theme but if they offered me to go very likely I would say no. Of course going to the Pole may be an amazing thing but these kinds of expeditions are one of the hardest!
I find amusing and surprising the fact that, at the moment, nobody has arrived at the Pole yet! On the one hand, we have all those who follow some bad coordinates. The amusing fact is that they think they were in a good place. I also think that the Russians who carry with the bust of Lenin to the Pole were so much convinced about what they were doing… and there remains it!
But when you read that there still are a place in the world where humans have never been before…is astonish. Nowadays we are exploring new planets or new galaxies that they are billions light years from here and there still places in our own world where we have never been before. And now I’m not referring only to this part of the Pole but, for example, to the deep ocean.
But finally it seems that we could cross off one more place on our list of places to conquer.
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