Measuring the thickness of sea ice
British explorers Pen Hadow and Ann Davis in northern Canada, were finally re-supplied with food, fuel and vital equipment after a Twin Otter plane landed on the Arctic Ocean floating sea ice where the team had been waiting for three days. The group -...
British explorers Pen Hadow and Ann Davis in northern Canada, were finally re-supplied with food, fuel and vital equipment after a Twin Otter plane landed on the Arctic Ocean floating sea ice where the team had been waiting for three days.
The group - Pen Hadow, Martin Hartley and Ann Daniels - set off on an 85-day hike to the North Pole on February 28 to measure the thickness of sea ice, but bad weather has hampered supply flights.
"It's a relief to have finally got the plane down. The longer we were forced to delay by the weather the worse we knew it would get for the team," Simon Harris-Ward said in a statement from the London headquarters of the Catlin Arctic Survey.
The expedition now expects to arrive at the North Pole in late May.