I have a friend who skied to the North Pole last year with a group of about 8. Another group with that outfitter went via dogsled. With some effort, it’s relatively easy to get to the North Pole.
One (straight) question: Did they take pictures? Cause that sounds really cool.
The question has been answered, but I just wanted to add that the answer is an emphatic “no.”
I myself have been to the North Pole, along with the other 125 or so crewmembers of my submarine. We weren’t the first submarine to go there, either.
Not really that much fun, actually.
It used to be fun. For twenty minutes, in 2002.
For plenty to read on Wakulla Springs cave diving, go to:
www.wkpp.org
Hit the history section for articles on the major dives.
Please do NOT EVEN THINK about cave diving unless you have bonafide training.
Even a trivial cave dive can kill you fast without training. Same goes for going in wrecks, if not more so.
Again, don’t even think about it.
These guys got so good at deep diving and decompressing that US Navy was asking how the hell they did what they did. All the standard theory on decompressing said they would be dead, much less not even hurt.
I know you mean the first person who reached the pole by means other than by ship, submarine, or aircraft, but I’ll still note that there’s no “land” per se anywhere near the North Pole. The ocean depth at the pole is around 14,000 feet.
…Which made it all the more strange the first time I walked on the ice in the Arctic. I walked several hundred yards away from my submarine, and it was a truly strange feeling to realize that I was standing on top of an ice pack over deep ocean, hundreds of miles away from land.