In 2008, Lewis Pugh tried to Kayak to the North Pole from Svalbard. He made it about 2% of the way to the pole, before he was forced to turn around by ice and cold.
The MSM dutifully reported his spectacular failure as a victory against global warming.
The ice on that side of the Arctic always extends about 1,000 km from the pole, even in winter.
1,000 km is about 9° on the sphere, so he got to latitude 81°N. If he had started from the northernmost point of Greenland (about 83.5°N), he would have to have kayaked backward, overland, to 81°N–about 170 miles south. With consensus science, of course, this would have been no problem; he would have been suspended above the ground on heated CO2, the miracle of our age (this is probably one of the “new energy sources” Obama was referring to the other day).
Get the media on the phone because I have came about 384,400 km from walking on the moon, which is a much greater achievement!
“Explorer”? More like brain dead attention whore.