![CHILLINGLY CLOSE: Ship struggles to reach polar explorers Børge Ousland and Mike Horn from ice north of Svalbard as they run out of food after three-month ski trip over North Pole CHILLINGLY CLOSE: Ship struggles to reach polar explorers Børge Ousland and Mike Horn from ice north of Svalbard as they run out of food after three-month ski trip over North Pole](https://icepeople.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/78703688_2374764149442560_6465595826973442048_n.jpg)
CHILLINGLY CLOSE: Ship struggles to reach polar explorers Børge Ousland and Mike Horn from ice north of Svalbard as they run out of food after three-month ski trip over North Pole
![TURNING UP THE HEAT: Warm ship awaits as Børge Ousland and Mike Horn reach support team, but burning questions intensify about costly effort after they reject helicopter pickup TURNING UP THE HEAT: Warm ship awaits as Børge Ousland and Mike Horn reach support team, but burning questions intensify about costly effort after they reject helicopter pickup](https://icepeople.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ouslandhornsat.jpg)
TURNING UP THE HEAT: Warm ship awaits as Børge Ousland and Mike Horn reach support team, but burning questions intensify about costly effort after they reject helicopter pickup
![South African adventurer Mike Horn, left, who lives in Switzerland and Norwegian explorer Borge Ousland, right, celebrate the end of their expedition "North Pole Winter Expedition" at the Barneo ice camp 50 South African adventurer Mike Horn, left, who lives in Switzerland and Norwegian explorer Borge Ousland, right, celebrate the end of their expedition "North Pole Winter Expedition" at the Barneo ice camp 50](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2PD7DT7/south-african-adventurer-mike-horn-left-who-lives-in-switzerland-and-norwegian-explorer-borge-ousland-right-celebrate-the-end-of-their-expedition-north-pole-winter-expedition-at-the-barneo-ice-camp-50-kilometers-away-from-the-north-pole-on-the-frozen-arctic-ocean-wednesday-april-5-2006-a-week-after-the-two-adventurers-became-the-first-men-to-cross-the-frozen-arctic-ocean-in-the-darkness-of-arctic-winter-on-skis-completing-a-grueling-1-000-km-expedition-from-northern-siberia-to-the-north-pole-in-60-days-and-5-hours-ap-phoztokeystonephotopresslaurent-gillieron-2PD7DT7.jpg)
South African adventurer Mike Horn, left, who lives in Switzerland and Norwegian explorer Borge Ousland, right, celebrate the end of their expedition "North Pole Winter Expedition" at the Barneo ice camp 50
![We are here to ski across the Arctic Ocean': Dispatches from Mike Horn's and Børge Ousland's North Pole trek | The Seattle Times We are here to ski across the Arctic Ocean': Dispatches from Mike Horn's and Børge Ousland's North Pole trek | The Seattle Times](https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/121519NorthPoleTreK_tzr.jpg?d=780x501)