It was 21 years ago that I trekked and swam solo, without resupply, across the icy Arctic Ocean from Canada to the North Geographic Pole. The feat hasn’t yet been repeated and probably won’t be due to a drop in sea-ice cover caused by warming resulting from greenhouse gas emissions far to the south.
It had taken three attempts over 15 years before success in 2003 in reaching the pole, around 770 kilometres from Canada in the central Arctic Ocean’s “high seas”. By then, the nature of the 75-day challenge had morphed to require an amphibious element – swimming between…
