It's cold!
I'm so 'tyred'!
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Norman,
you've only got to do it for 350 miles!
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Norman
and his "Arctic Xtreme" team will start from Resolute Bay,
on the south side of Cornwallis Island, in the former North
West
Territories
of
Canada
and walk over 350 miles to the True Magnetic North Pole.
He will
carry an integrated communication system linked to dedicated
back up facilities, which include both motorised
skidoo and aircraft. Included in the survival equipment his
team will carry will be polar bear deterrents.
True to the
purest spirit of the adventure - man against the elements
- outside
assistance will be restricted. This will be unlike, for
example, many 'Extreme' challenges and adventures today that
are organised by commercial concerns as 'alternative package
holidays' where people pay their money, turn up
and are supervised across. There will be no moral boosting
phone calls home on a regular basis or to support teams for
regular assistance and no meals provided
at checkpoints. The success and failure will rest with the
team out on the ice.
THE
TRAINING
Norman’s
training programme covers all of the necessary skills required
to compete
in the race.
In addition
to the physical training, technical training will be given
a great deal of
attention. Building on his decision-making and lateral thinking
skills,
the technical training will develop his knowledge of:
Camp skills,
cold weather injuries, survival in the field, navigation,
route selection, map skills, the effects of dehydration, team
work, distance and weight carry, personal hygiene, back-up
plans, crossing ice drills, survival training, medical skills,
ski training
and breaking ice drills.
Norman
has already undergone rigorous and extensive testing and training.
Please see news
section
for
further details.
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