Arctic Kayak Stunt Ends 600 Miles from North Pole
“I’m going to try and get all the way to the North Pole to show the world what is happening,” the 38-year-old said after launching his Polar Defense Project expedition on the River Thames in London.
“It shouldn’t be possible. But this might be the year that it could be. I hope I can’t go all the way. “Failure would equal success in this expedition,” he said.
The Times of India: ‘Lewis Gordon Pugh on ‘melting’ North Pole trail’
Well, Pugh succeeded in failing, ending up about 600 miles short of the North Pole, around 81.5 degrees north :
October 15th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
[...] Has anyone in the main-stream media since told you that Pugh had to call off his plan, still 600 miles from the North Pole, when his kayak ran into too much ice? [...]
October 16th, 2008 at 6:25 am
These idiots never get any publicity when their plans go wrong. The whole climate change story is a major scam.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:09 am
This Lewis Gordon Pugh is *****. I actually stumbled on some website a month or so ago, it was called something like ourcivilization.com, and one of the scientists on this website said that the earth’s temperature has dropped 0.13 degrees since 1979.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:11 am
[...] few months ago Lewis Pugh and the Polar Defense Project set out on a much-media-hyped journey to paddle a kayak to an ice-free North Pole to show how bad global warming was. Unfortunately for Pugh, he was stopped by ice 600 miles from [...]