The marked route ends at the bushline and the remainder of the climb is on tussock, rock, and eventually the summit ice cap glacier.
They can go round the world under the ice cap or in any other way they like.
There is evidence of melting of the polar ice cap at both poles.
There would also be a progressive growth in the weight of the ice cap of "between 100 and 400 billion tons per year".
It is covered with a very deep and thick ice cap.
Instead of a polar ice cap we have large icebergs detaching themselves and starting off on courses which cannot be foreseen or known in advance.
It was traditionally just the north polar ice cap that was melting, but there is now melting at both poles.
In addition to the official flag hoisting and the geodetic measurements, three samples of gravel and one sample with moss were collected north of the ice cap.
