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The environment that Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer wil be travelling through for more than four months is totally appropriate to the elaboration of such a message.
As they have undertaken to carry out scientific experiments (some aimed at measuring the thickness of the ice), Alain and Dixie will be able, not only to participate in reaching a better understanding of this hostile and mysterious region of the Earth, but they will also experience at first hand the progressive and ineluctable decline in the thickness of the Arctic ice pack.
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In
keeping with the previous Polar expeditions organised by Alain Hubert,
this enormous challenge Compaq Pole II - The Ultimate Arctic Crossing
- is dedicated to the aim of raising global awareness of the need
to safeguard fragile polar ecosystem.
If
thre is one place on Earth where it is possible to observe the effects
of Global Warming, it has to be the polar regions, and in particular
the Arctic ice pack where the thickness of the ice has been drastically
decreasing over the years (40% during the last ten years).
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