“Don’t worry, by the time you get there, it will be nearing the end of winter and the temperature will only be around -25 degrees Celsius.”
They were meant to be reassuring words from Catlin Arctic Expedition Director Pen Hadow.
But as I put the phone down in my apartment in plus 30 degree Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, it was still somewhat hard to imagine enduring such extreme conditions, while reporting on the work of Catlin’s scientists.
The international team of researchers have already spent the past month enduring even colder conditions living and working on floating sea ice, some 750 miles from the North Pole.
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