North Pole hike "unworldly” adventure
White — stark and gleaming white as far as you can see. That’s what first grabbed Doug Beall .
"It’s strikingly beautiful,” he said.
Then the cold hit — minus-40 degrees, so cold that backpack fabric crinkles, drinks freeze before you finish them, and food, such as a candy bar Perry Taaca munched, turns to stone. "It was like chewing gravel,” Taaca said.
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