The Race to the North Pole

The Race to the North Pole

By James NobleTravis Golden

By James NobleTravis Golden

What was the challenge?

James May and Jeremy Clarkson raced a truck against a group of sled dogs to the North Pole in 1996.

They filmed this race to put on a show called Top Gear: Polar Special.

What they drove

They drove a Toyota Hilux.That’s them in their Hilux.

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What they sawThey saw a family of polar bears.They drove on the Arctic Ocean. James May was the first person to

drive a pick up truck to the magnetic north pole.

They had a shotgun incase the polar bears were going to attack them.

The Hilux was chosen because it had proven itself to see the exebeditionally durable.

The date

The expedition set out in April of 2007.

It took them almost a year to get ready.

They started in the morning.

What they did

They had fun spinning through the snow. They could have fallen through thin ice but they stayed away from the thin ice They had to use a special toilet to go to the bathroom at the end of the truck. They got stuck.When they got to the North Pole they ran out of gas.

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Glossary

EXPEDITION: A journey undertaken by a group of people with a definite objective

Magnetic North Pole: The Earth’s Northern Magnetic point.