"The upper ecosystem from the upper vegetation limit to the glacier is essentially the same over all climatic zones from the North Pole to the Antarctic, " says Mr Messerli.
If we were the animals living in the North Pole and the South Pole we would start to think will we ever make it past the threat of global warming or are we just all going to die here.
Having dropped (back in 1990) a plan to build the world's biggest ice-breaker, the Canadians may also have to seek Russian help next time they need to carve out a path to the North Pole: even the patrol boats ordered up by Mr Harper this month won't match Russia's leviathans.
They used a grid displaying all possible hues rolled into a globe, with black at the north pole and white at the south.
Russian scientists are keen on proving that the seabed below the North Pole is part of the Eurasian continental shelf, an area called the Lomonosov Ridge.
In April 2006, I led an expedition to the North Pole to raise awareness of the consequences of climate change.
If Santa Claus and his little helpers from the North Pole are able to deliver presents around the world in just one night, why can't the Internet?
Pen Hadow, the first man to trek solo from Canada to the north pole without resupply in 2003, agrees with the distinction.
Artur Chilingarov, an adventurer and deputy speaker of Russia's parliament, led two Russian mini-submarines to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean beneath the North Pole, where he collected gravel and planted the Russian flag.
Go to the North Pole and fret about global warming, preferably in the company of a furry animal.
When Buddy the Elf travels from the North Pole in search of his father, he ends up in the Big Apple.
He was the first man to visit both the North and South Pole by land and the first to completely cross the Antarctic by foot.
The Geomagnetic pole is the north end of the axis of the geomagnetic field which surrounds the Earth and extends into space as the magnetosphere.
Deep inside the Arctic Circle, far closer to the North Pole than to Oslo, Svalbard is at once one of Europe's last intact wilderness areas and the world's most accessible slice of the polar North.
Modern astronomers now know that the celestial north pole was exactly aligned between Kochab and Mizar only in the year 2, 467 BC.
Tackling the real North Pole is estimated to take at least four times as long as the magnetic pole, which, at present, is considerably further south.
On 27 February they will start measuring the thickness of the ice around the North Pole.
"When we went up near the North Pole, there was very little knowledge, " says Jeremy.
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Russia claims a larger slice, saying its continental shelf extends from Siberia to the North Pole.
It now looks much less likely that the team will reach its destination of the North Pole.
It will be even shorter when it is possible to break the ice across the North Pole.
Mr Hadow, 46, became the first explorer to trek solo and unsupported from Canada to the North Pole.
Gone are the days of writing a wish list to Santa Claus and sending it to the North Pole.
In 2000, he lost the fingers on his left hand during an unaided attempt to reach the North Pole.
No global blackouts, no old Soviet ICBMs racing over the North Pole, no collapse of civilization as we know it.
He expected to spend a further 65 days travelling solo across approximately 700 miles of ice to the North Pole.
Take, for example, a children's book called The North Pole Was Here, authored by New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin.
Six years later a Russian submersible was to plant a titanium flag on the seabed 4km below the North Pole.
Yet, equipped with a prosthetic leg, he successfully trekked with the rest of his team to the North Pole in 2011.
On August 2, 2007, a Russian submarine with two parliamentarians on board planted a titanium flag two miles beneath the North Pole.
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