Polar Special

Run Time: 60 mins
Air Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007
Average Rating: ⭐ 9.75 (4 votes)
BBC One BBC TwoSeason 0 - Episode 12

Average Rating: ⭐ 9.75 (4)
The distance between Resolute in northern Canada and the magnetic North Pole at Ellef Ringnes Island is 450 miles. It's a journey across sea ice and unforgiving mountainous terrain where temperatures can drop to minus 65ºC - a temperature at which exposed skin can freeze in less than 30 seconds. Only fools would attempt such a journey. So Jeremy and James are attempting to do it in the now legendary Toyota Hilux and Richard hopes to make it on a sled pulled by ten Canadian Inuit dogs. Watch the complaints from environmentalists roll in.