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To drive to Canada via the Baring strait?I mean its all so icy ect? Or am I living in a fantasy world?Was or had it ever been attempted?

2007-03-22 05:03:09 · 3 answers · asked by brunelscooby 4 in Society & Culture Cultures & Groups Other - Cultures & Groups

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It is possible and has been done several times by vehicle and on foot.
As challenges go, traversing the 56 mi. frozen stretch separating the United States from Russia known as the Bering Strait has to rank somewhere near the top. While it might look simple, the passage involves crossing water, floating ice and icebergs. But in 2002, that challenge was successfully completed by the United Kingdom-based Ice Challenger team, led by Steve Brooks and codriver Graham Stratford, in their vehicle known as Snowbird 6.
It was their second attempt. In 2001 Brooks and Stratford attempted the crossing with Snowbird 5, but the vehicle's floatation tanks were damaged while climbing back onto an ice ridge and the expedition was aborted. Vehicle design improvements were made and this year the attempt was made again with a more positive outcome.
While Snowbird 6 became the first land-based vehicle to cross a treacherous 24 mi. stretch of floating ice and open water that makes up the Bering Strait from Wales, Alaska, to the Siberia Russian land mass of Big Diomedes, the goal had been to drive from America to Russia. However, at the last minute, bureaucracy prevented that attempt.

2007-03-22 05:11:28 · answer #1 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 1 0

there are times of the year it is possible if your mad enough lot of water if you go through the ice well i say that but with global warming perhaps not so much any more

2007-03-22 05:27:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

There is a bridge there now

2007-03-22 05:05:27 · answer #3 · answered by Barry Von Leotard III 3 · 0 2

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