The danger of melting ice


The Southern Quest sank minutes before Robert Swan and his team arrived at the South Pole after being hit by pack ice.

An adventurer who has walked to both the North and South Poles, enduring even ice in his underwear, seeks to tell the world about the global perils of melting ice.

WHEN it’s minus-72° Celsius, sweat turns to ice inside your clothes. That was the coldest it ever got for Robert Swan, an adventurous 29-year-old on an extraordinary mission. His youth was built on tales of the great explorers Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen. And as an adult, he attempted the same route as Scott, a British Navy Captain whose team of four died on the way back after making it second to the pole (after Norwegian explorer Amundsen’s expedition got there first in 1912).

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