As I leapt out of the tent in my longjohns banging a cooking pot to scare away the polar bear that was lumbering across the ice towards us, I wondered whether it had been a good idea to answer an advert in the Metro on my occasional commute calling for volunteers to join an Arctic expedition to the Geomagnetic North Pole.
The company running the expedition, Ice Warrior, headed by explorer Jim McNeill, had promised to turn regular people into Arctic explorers, but having once got lost for seven hours in the Lake District, I knew it’d have its work cut out. But evidently the training weekends in the UK, Norway and the Canada had paid off, because as the polar bear got within 20 metres of the tent, one of us managed to fire a flare just in front of his nose and he scurried off to find less resilient explorers to worry.
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