Alarmists on ice: Stabbing pain
It’s Day 22 and the magnitude of the length of this expedition is beginning to dawn on us all. We could have as many as 70 days left and that’s really sunk in today. It’s -34, which is a significant rise in temperature for us. Our sleeping bags are soaking wet and I can think of 20 million things I’d rather be doing than this.1/22/09: Arctic explorers ready 'to swim' to North Pole - Telegraph
A team of Arctic explorers, led by Pen Hadow, travelling to the North Pole to investigate climate change, may have to swim for up to two hours a day because of melting ice caps.For maintaining fitness during a five-day layover, wouldn't a daily refreshing two-hour swim be just the ticket?
The effects of lying on your back inside a frozen tent for 5 days awaiting resupply has grave effects on mental and physical wellbeing.
There are many studies that look into the physiological effects of muscle immobilisation, normally as a result of having a limb in a cast after breaking a bone or prolonged bed rest after surgery, not normally as a result of being stuck in a tent at -40 degrees awaiting resupply.
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