The Ice Warrior Has a Detailed Plan | Sterling Performance | BNET

McNeill has already attempted to reach the centre of the Arctic Ocean in 2006. This attempt ended after, due to unseasonal conditions, he slipped into the water, which is so cold it would only take around 20 minutes to kill him. He pulled himself out of the water, but it was plain the conditions, brought on by climate change, were too dangerous to continue.

[If SUVs caused the open leads in 2006, what caused the open leads in 1909?]

Check out the New York Times article here, where Commander Peary talks about Arctic conditions in 1909.

Excerpts from Peary himself:

The difficulties and hardships of a journey to the North Pole are too complex to be summed up in a paragraph. But, briefly stated, the worst of them are: the ragged and mountainous ice over which the traveler must journey with his heavily loaded sledges...
...the open leads already described, which he must cross and recross, somehow...