The 2005 Scott Dunn Polar Challenge is a competitive team-race to the 1996 location of the Magnetic North Pole
and beyond, with the finish line at the deserted Isachsen salt mine. Organised by the Polar Challenge
company, the race is staffed by experienced adventurers, arctic and logistics experts and,
despite only having run for two years, is now generally acknowledged as one of the toughest
adventure races in the world.

Events do not come much more extreme than skiing and walking to the North Pole,
carrying all your supplies behind you on a 90kg sled
and experiencing temperatures as low as -40°C.

It’s also where 80 per cent of the world’s polar bears live…

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