735-Mile Ice Trek to the Remotest Place On Earth ; Exclusive the Pole of Inaccessibility in the Arctic Is so Bleak No- One has Ever Set Foot On It..Now One Man Plans a Solo Walk, Battling - 40c Cold and Dodging Hungry Polar Bears

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THE packed sled attached to my waist weighs more than me, the wind chill is minus 20C and as we trudge, painfully slowly, across the ice all I can remember is last night's supper.

Three bloody slices of seal, three bloody slices of whale and a raw potato. And it's not much comfort to know that our tent has already been slashed by a polar bear.

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735-Mile Ice Trek to the Remotest Place On Earth ; Exclusive the Pole of Inaccessibility in the Arctic Is so Bleak No- One has Ever Set Foot On It..Now One Man Plans a Solo Walk, Battling - 40c Cold and Dodging Hungry Polar Bears

Welcome to Svalbard, 600 miles south of the North Pole and the training camp for the last world-first in global adventure - the first expedition on foot to the Pole of Inaccessibility, the point of the Arctic Ocean ice furthest from any land and the remotest place on Earth.

Explorer Jim McNeill aims to be the first man to set foot here - 200 miles north of the North Pole and 735 miles from the nearest land.

But it's a mission with an important purpose. In partnership wi...

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