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Why
Travel with PolarExplorers?
Our
top 5 reasons...
  
PolarExplorer guides are passionate about what they
do. Among their top priorities are helping clients to become
comfortably self sufficient. They do this by giving every participant
personal guidance and advice hewn from years of experience.
From choosing the best equipment to helping you learn to cook
a decent meal, they are there to help. You'll find the PolarExplorer
guides easy to get along with and eager to share
their expertise. Perhaps best of all, they are genuinely invested
in making your experience as safe, positive and rewarding as
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it comes to polar adventure travel, PolarExplorers wrote the
book. Back in 1993 we produced and co-guided the first-ever
Dogsled and Ski Expedition to the North Pole for amateur adventurers,
carving a path in the frozen ice for all others to follow. We
have the passion to be the best and the experience to back us
up. Over the years we've had adventurers of all ages and abilities
join us. We have guided men and women from nine to sixty-nine
years of age on our expeditions, and we have developed a reputation
for giving exceptional individual attention, both on and off
the ice. From the moment you register until you board your return
flight home, you can be confident that the entire PolarExplorers
staff will work with you to ensure that you have the best possible
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one-of-a-kind Polar
shakedown trip (included in all North Pole
expeditions) offers our guests the invaluable opportunity
to "test-drive" their clothing, equipment and sleeping
systems. More importantly it gives a taste for the mental and
physical challenges that lie ahead - allowing you the chance
to decide if you are ready for the expedition. No other company
will offer you a similar opportunity to build your skills, judgment
and confidence before your expedition. We believe that it is
essential to offer participants this type of hands-on training.
During your shakedown trip, PolarExplorers guides will accompany
you and teach you the skills and judgment that are necessary
for a successful expedition. Moreover, they are able to answer
your critical questions and concerns before the expedition,
while you still have time to make adjustments to your training
regimen or clothing systems. "I can't imagine going
to the Pole without this experience!" is feedback
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Let's face it:
though the Polar environment can seem hearty, even hostile
in its ruggedness, it is actually extremely fragile. In fact,
the Polar regions represent two of the last remaining true
wildernesses on the planet & they are quickly changing.
We are committed to preserving and protecting these delicate
environments, and reducing our contributions to golbal warming
as much as possible. We accomplish this in two. First, we
live and work by a strong environmental ethic. All
of our expeditions are carbon neutral and we recycle
almost 100% of our paper and plastic products at our home
office. Second, we follow conservation guidelines, such as
the World Wildlife Foundation's Code of Conduct for Arctic
Tour Operators whenever possible. Our trips to the South Pole
follow similar important guidelines where they apply. Let
us show you what makes these wildernesses so extremely special
and worthy of our combined efforts to protect them! Back
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do we offer expeditions to the North and South Poles? That's
easy - we are passionate about the high latitudes. Like you,
we have been captured by the mystery and beauty of the far North
and South. Our idea of a good time is strapping on skis and
breaking trail over frozen landscapes, stopping every so often
to admire a frozen sculpture of sea ice, or a crevasse etched
into time. To us, frozen eyelashes and frosty faces make people
more beautiful - and the crunchy sound of a sled gliding over
compacted snow is music to our ears. We guide trips to the Poles
because we love and respect their unforgiving environments,
and we want to share with others the powerful sense of discovery
that makes an expedition of this magnitude so rewarding. Back
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New! Check out the blogs and podcasts directly from our adventurers on the ice for our 2008 Polar Expeditions.
All
PolarExplorers Expeditions
are carbon-neutral.
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Wilmette, IL 60091 U.S.A.
800.732.7328 in the US & Canada
847.256.4409 outside the US & Canada
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Journal
entry #16
"I have never seen such sights. The vastness, the loveliness,
the starkness of the Arctic Ocean is indescribable."
Journal
entry #22
"Bitterly cold wind today, but I was able to keep warm and enjoy
the incredible Antarctic landscape. At one point the blowing snow blended
perfectly with the clouds in the distance, creating the impression that
the land and the sky were one.
It was stunning."
Journal
entry # 12
"Today we encountered lead after lead after lead. It seemed
that the they were acting as guards, only allowing passage
to those willing to search endlessly for a route through
the maze."
Journal
entry # 5
"The best part of the evening is sitting next to the stove calculating
our position. It is amazing how much we can drift during the course
of a day. Today we drifted several miles
to the east."
Client
tip #4
"It's going to be
one of the best memories of your life. But believe everything you are
told about the cold...at the Pole it is freezing plus! Follow the clothing
- gloves and boots recommendations especially -
to a "T". They know! There is
no tolerance for "tough guys."
Client
tip # 8
"Be prepared - take matters seriously, but enjoy yourself.
For me the shakedown trip and the expedition gave me the opportunity
to escape my world and live a dream. I was in a
land of no phones, no faxes,
no
business emergencies - a cold heaven. Based on the trip
I was able to readjust some personal values which have improved my life."
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