So the photographer launched the Extreme Ice Survey in order to do something that had never been attempted.

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They will trek between nine and 13 miles each day in extreme weather conditions and encounter vast crevasses, moving ice-shelves, glaciers and snow storms.

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Periodic ice ages going back 10, 000 years show extreme temperature swings, exceeding 6 degrees Celsius within 50 years in some cases, said Richard Sommerville, meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

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Grampian Police said fog and ice were making driving difficult and urged motorists to take extreme care.

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The UK is in the grip of its longest cold snap for almost 30 years, and extreme or severe weather warnings are still in place across the UK for both snow and ice.

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The extreme heat caused problems for both sides, Plunkett struck down by cramp, local hero Dhoni requiring ice packs and Prior vomiting behind the stumps.

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