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Northwest skier part of team racing to the North Pole

The Polar Challenge is open to anybody willing to pay the $45,000 entry fee, which includes all necessary gear and Arctic training sessions in Norway.

The event begins in Resolute, Canada, from where teams will make a six-day expedition to the starting point. After the start, skiers will come to a checkpoint at the 100- and 200-mile marks. There, they will have access to supplies flown in by airplane, and to doctors. After the second checkpoint, teams will make their way to the 1996 position of the magnetic North Pole, then travel another 16 miles to the finish at an airstrip. Finishing racers will be flown out of the frozen environment immediately upon concluding the race.
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Perhaps the scariest factor is the prospect of meeting polar bears. Violett says race officials told him: "It's not if you see a polar bear, it's when."

Participants in the Polar Challenge are required to carry a loaded 12-gauge shotgun at all times during the race, in case of a polar bear attack.