Team Plans To Row To The North Pole - Media Claims
A team plans to row to the magnetic pole next year.
Proving once more, if proof be needed, that the media can't publish a story without incorporating 'added value', the media is misreporting a valiant team effort to reach the geographical North pole next Summer. The public needs to know that this has nothing whatsoever in any shape or form to do with the possibility of rowing to the geographical North Pole.
Its the magnetic pole, ok?
The Old Pulteney Row to the Pole Expedition will start from Resolute Bay and end at the Magnetic North Pole at 78°35.7N 104°11.9W / 78.595°N 104.1983°W.
Straight from the horse's mouth:
The Old Pulteney Row to the Pole Expedition will see me and 5 crew mates brave some of the harshest conditions on the planet as we row our specially-designed boat through Arctic waters to reach the pole.
The expedition will test us to the limits of our endurance, and if we are succesful, will rank alongside the first row across the Atlantic.
The challenge will take place in July/August 2011 and is of global significance as both a pioneering maritime adventure and an environmental expedition.
The planned 450-mile route across the Arctic Sea starts in Resolute Bay in Canada. Timing is of the essence as the final section of the journey is only navigable for a few weeks of the year before refreezing.
It has only become possible to consider an attempt like this in recent years due to the increase in seasonal ice melt and the much-documented deterioration of the Arctic landscape.
Jock Wishart
Old Pulteney, the Genuine Maritime Malt, is the official sponsor of Row to the Pole.
Slangevar !!!
The media really needs to stop sending its journalists to the Goebbels school of journalism.
A dime gets you a dollar: if the team was using a paper canoe it would be reported by the media that they were going to sea in a cereals box.
