Battling Polar Bears and Eating Butter: Researchers Prepare for Arctic Adventure

Published on May 12, 2024

Australian glaciologist and engineer Adrian McCallum is embarking on a month-long polar trek on foot to measure Greenland’s ice sheet alongside four other members with whom he has only met online. The professor from the University of Sunshine Coast (UniSC) has been training for the 580-kilometre (360-mile) trek by dragging four-wheel drive tyres up and down steep hills. The rest of the expedition members are from much colder climates such as Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and Greenland. “The other members of the expedition have been preparing and training in freezing winter conditions in Europe. I’ve been dragging tyres up and down the hinterland all summer,” Mr. McCallum said in a UniSC release....

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