Mark Agnew, from Edinburgh, has told of his adventures which included tackling dangerous seas and facing a polar bear.
An adventurer from Edinburgh has helped set two world records by kayaking the Arctic Ocean’s treacherous Northwest Passage.
The team followed the same route taken by Sir John Franklin, whose 1845 expedition through the passage ended in disaster with the loss of two ships and the death of all 129 men who took part. “And when the weather was so bad that we couldn’t paddle, they were the toughest times as we counted the days to winter.
“Crossing the 45-mile wide Prince Regent inlet, we were trapped by ice,” he said. “We were so close to shore but just couldn’t escape its clutches. We were stuck. Mr Agnew also encountered a polar bear one morning after he and his team had set up a camp on shore to get some much-needed rest. “But all our attempts to scare the bear didn’t work – it just stood there. We were running out of ideas.“We had already seen dozens of bears but none had behaved like this as all others avoided us. So, we kept an eye out, got ready and paddled on.”
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