During that first week she also found that the pipes in the home she was staying had frozen up for the duration of winter, and if the inside snowfall wasn't bad enough, the avalanche of paper work waiting for her on her desk looked no less daunting. Then there was the high cost of living to deal with. We've had balloonists and skiers who have left here for expeditions to the North Pole. We've had people attempt to walk it, to motorcycle to it, we even had one fellow who planned on hauling a rickshaw there, but that particular attempt never got off the ground. It is an unforgiving landscape.
Blizzards can occur virtually anytime.
With no shelter, no settlements and with drifting polar ice providing the wild card, travelling this land is potentially dangerous for even the most experienced adventurer. There are other dangers. Even in the community of Resolute the occasional visit of a polar bear is not unheard of. Yet in many respects, it is the hardship and danger that defines the place - that attract the adventurers, and that gives the community its warmth and friendliness. Those hardships have always brought people together, co-operating with each other to survive both the physical hardships of the north and the dramatic challenges of the modern economic world.