Explorers are strangely driven

IQALUIT — A pair of British explorers want to become the first people to drive across the frozen Bering Strait.

According to an article in the Anchorage Daily News, Steve Brooks and Graham Stratford plan to begin the crossing this week in “Snowbird 5,” a snow tractor equipped with floats in case the vehicle breaks through the ice.

The team expects to make the crossing in six days.

The strait, a 56-mile-wide waterway between Alaska and the Siberian Arctic, is typically frozen over in the winter.

But this winter, warm weather has left the strait with pools of open water, as well as eight-foot-high pressure ridges.

All past attempts at driving across the strait have ended in failure.