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Climate change helps local man set Arctic sailing record

By Bella English

 |  Globe Staff  

  October 05, 2012

There was the hungry polar bear he saw floating on a nearby chunk of ice. And the memorial site on a remote island for the 127 men who, in the 1800s, met their deaths on a similar Arctic voyage. The mythic narwhals — “Arctic unicorns” — that he observed up close. The fact that he made landfall at the northernmost inhabited settlement on the planet.

Morgan Peissel, a 25-year-old from Cambridge, now has a list of adventures to rival many a seasoned explorer. He, his cousin, Nicolas, and Swedish friend Edvin Buregren in late August accomplished what no other crew on a sailboat has: They made it through icy McClure Strait in the Canadian Arctic, near the top of the world. They sailed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, crossing the Arctic Circle at both ends.

Comments

maybe it will be “impassable.” next year

What a strange thing to celebrate. What's next, rising sea levels boost home prices for newly established ocean front property owners?

Anyone else ever get this when posting to Globe?

 

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Anyone else ever get this when posting to Globe?

 

### Error querying database.  Cause: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: insert or update on table "ia" violates foreign key constraint "ia_topic_key_fkey"
  Detail: Key (topic_key)=(0) is not present in table "topic".
  Where: SQL statement "INSERT INTO IA (
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Thanks, Bella for a fascinating story....and an environmental warning.