http://www.canada.com/technology/Ship+historic+crossing+signals+extent+Arctic+melt/7176411/story.html
*I think upon Mackenzie, David, Thompson and the rest* *Who cracked the mountain ramparts and did show a path for me* *To race the roaring Fraser to the sea.* *How then am I so different from the first men through this way?* *Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away.* *To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men * *To find there not a road back home again.* Canadians are romantically inspired by all those who died in their attempts to make the Northwest Passage. All those who tested their metal against the passage paid dearly with their lives. But the world has turned over from those storied times of wooden ships and the iron men who sailed them; and that fabled route is now like a Sunday’s sail in the park. Now from the referenced article: With a 9.3-metre fibreglass sailboat, Nicolas Peissel and his crewmates were able to do what seasoned explorers on hulking Arctic ships attempted over centuries but never succeeded. They crossed the northernmost route of the Northwestern Passages, which connects Baffin Bay to the Arctic Ocean in Canada's far North. "This is a clear signal that there's climate change," Peissel said. And this was the point of the whole journey. Thirty-five-year-old Peissel, his cousin Morgan Peissel, and Swede Edvin Buregren are making history to demonstrate how Arctic ice is at an all-time low, and the serious implications for humanity. Cheers: Axil
