Oh, my. How long has it been since we had a global warming lunatic who discovered that that Arctic isn’t nearly as warm as the hype lead him to believe?
The Ski Channel reports the frigid facts:
Tim Smitheringale is perhaps both the bravest and dumbest man we’ve ever encountered. The Australian was on his way to the North Pole, alone, when he fell through an ice sheet. He was close to death when he was miraculously rescued by Canadian soldiers.
His goal? To become the first Australian to reach the North Pole unassisted. He was only 186 miles away when the accident happened. He wrote on his website: “Had a bad fall into the ice today and came very close to the grave.”
The Sydney Morning Herald tells more tingling details:
Last week he almost quit after excruciating frostbite in his fingers and thumbs forced him to call in an emergency rescue.
And finally, OneManEpic.com, Smitheringale’s own website, tells why he launched this doomed mission in the first place:
Part of the reason Tom’s One Man Epic is taking place now is because of the effect that global warming is having on the polar ice caps. Over the past 20 years, scientists have noticed that our world is heating up. As the great polar ice floes melt, sea levels are slowly rising and the huge glaciers are becoming weaker and weaker. Some scientists have even estimated that the polar ice cap will have entirely melted away by 2014!
Turns out Smitheringale was damned lucky the Canadian armed forces were nearby (doing whatever it is the Canadian armed forces do) and responded to his emergency S.O.S. beacon.
Otherwise, he would now be a Smitheringale-sicle.
H/T: Andrew Bolt
