Expedition to reach Arctic 'pole of inaccessibility' to begin in February.

[Backseat Driver]

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs/expedition-arctic-pole-inaccessibility

Do you want to go along on an adventure of a lifetime? Teams for 20-day legs of the expedition forming soon - Apply for consideration!

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Citizen scientists tag along — and help fund the expedition

McNeill, who has more than 30 years of experience exploring polar regions, is not deterred. Joining him at various intervals during the 80-day, 800-mile "Last Pole" expedition will be 28 citizen scientists from around the globe. Each will pay more than $21,000, a pricey ticket that includes funding for the adventure, supplies, more than 30 days of polar and medical training, and a guaranteed spot on one of four 20-day legs of the journey.

"They will face fiercely low temperatures, disintegrating ice flows beneath their feet and the possibility of encountering hungry polar bears," McNeill writes on his Ice Warrior site. "And all to further our knowledge and benchmark the condition of the Arctic Ocean."

During the course of the expedition, the team will collect data on sea ice, weather and other info crucial to determining the present condition of the Arctic Ocean. For Nico Kaufmann, a 30-year-old Scot from Edinburgh, the adventure was just too good an opportunity to pass up.

"I'm very pleased to be taking part in something which will help save the planet. It is a real privilege to be involved in an expedition as important as this," he told the Edinburgh News. "To be in the environment there will be incredible. To go somewhere no one has been before is so exciting because we do not know what we will find. When I told my wife she thought I was a bit mental. But she is supporting me and now I’m excited to go on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure."

You can follow the adventure from the cozy comfort of home by visiting the Last Pole website.

[Canoe52]

1. Brrrr no way, but I'd go on an expedition to the Caribbean!

[OnlinePoker]

2. Article is dated last January and starting in February

Another linked item in the article says they were going in February 2019. Go on the website, however, and it says applications close November 2020 (I'm assuming for a 2021 expedition). I can't see through searches if they actually did the expedition this year or if it was called off.

[Backseat Driver]

3. Noticed that too, but the plan seemed legit - no takers?

[OnlinePoker]

4. $21,000 is a lot of money to only do 1/4 of the expedition n/t