British explorers to measure melting icecaps

The Associated Press
Published: January 22, 2009

LONDON: A team of British explorers has set a new date for an ambitious trek across the North Pole after an expedition planned for last year fell through due to funding problems.
Explorers Pen Hadow, Ann Daniel and photographer Martin Hartley plan to set off from northern Canada's Arctic border on Feb. 24.
They intend to clamber over ice fields and swim through open water to reach the pole, taking measurements on ice and snow levels in the Arctic as they go.
The data will be fed into supercomputers at the U.S. Postgraduate Naval School in Monterey, California.
The team hopes to have results ready for an international conference on climate change being held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December.