ATV to cross Bering Strait?

Two British men planned to cross the Bering Strait from Alaska to Chukotka, Russia, in an all-terrain vehicle this week.

Steve Brooks and Graham Stratford were to cross the 56 miles between Alaska and Russia in the Snowbird 6, a Snow Cat designed to travel across snow, ice and open water.

The team used a helicopter to check the ice pack conditions.

“The strait changes every day,” Brooks told the Anchorage Daily News earlier this week. “Some days there are lovely pans of ice, others rough bad ones.”

But weather delayed the pair from beginning the journey. Temperatures close to freezing reduced visability while a 25 knot south wind kept the ice in motion.

For an update on the expedition’s progress online, visit www.icechallenger.com.