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To get home they had to travel back over
400+ miles of dangerous, icy trails. Getting to the Pole was one thing.
Getting back
alive was another. In fact, many groups of people have adventured to the North Pole by walking or
riding dog sledgess—but they only
go one way! They knew that the ice would begin to break up with the spring thaw. The leads would open up and they could be stranded from land by open water without any way to be rescued. So they marched harder on the way back—it was a race to get to the safety of land. They used the Igloos and camps were waiting for them, the trail from the supply teams could be followed. But they were in a race to survive and so they only slept a few hours a day to keep on marching. Their bodies were becoming exhausted as they stumbled on day after day to get back to the safety of Cape Columbia. |
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