The North Pole is the least hospitable place in the world. In 1895, the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen spent weeks living on an ice floe during an expedition that tried and failed to reach it. The first people – a group of Russian scientists – to set foot there did so only in 1948.
By any measure, I am pretty much the least likely person to try to reach the North Pole. I never try to get fit by hauling