Ben Saunders - Solo & unsupported North Pole Speed Record 2011-2013

Ben Saunders talks about weight saving techniques, his equipment design choices to launch a record-setting expeditions to the North Pole. His expedition has been delayed by ice composition changes in the Arctic. If we think about global warming or inter-glacial melts, the logistics of Arctic life for natives and explorers is fast changing and challenging the traditional ways the northern communities have lived, who visits them, and how they sustain their lives in the warming polar and arctic regions of the northern hemisphere used in this example.

Ben Saunders - Solo & unsupported North Pole Speed Record 2011-2012
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Filmed and edited by Temujin Doran - www.studiocanoe.com
Additional footage by Andy Ward - www.flickr.com/photos/averylongwalk