Sailing To North Pole, Explorers Find More Ice Than Expected
![Two men pose aboard a small boat, filled with gear, with a blue sky behind them.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Arctic-Mission-Pen-Hadow-and-Erik-de-Jong-aboard-Bagheera-in-Nome-harbor-Sep-2017-1200x900.jpg)
A team of explorers and scientists returned to Nome last week after attempting to be the first to sail to the North Pole. The three-week expedition, called Arctic Mission, gathered scientific data about Arctic marine ecosystems, and went farther north by water than almost anyone had before.