[antimedia] antimedia: This is too funny....

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Posted by antimedia:
This is too funny....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1173754044.shtml


   ....[1]for words.

     A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming
     was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The
     explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off
     what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean
     after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme
     cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic
     equipment.
     "Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part
     of the journey," said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the
     expedition.
     ...
     Then there was the cold â quite a bit colder, Atwood said, then
     Bancroft and Arnesen had expected. One night they measured the
     temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside
     temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.
     "My first reaction when they called to say there were calling it
     off was that they just sounded really, really cold," Atwood said.

   You can't make this stuff up. (Hat tip to [2]The Discerning Texan.)

References

   1. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/218710.php
   2. http://discerningtexan.blogspot.com/2007/03/you-have-got-to-love-this-headline.html