I think that was the Aussie idiot professor that chartered a Russian icebreaker to follow the route an Australian explorer had done long ago when the Antarctic ice pack wasn’t an obstacle.
That would have been a story the media couldn’t ignore if they’d been attacked and eaten.
Well, if you are right, and it was Antarctica, they could not be eaten by polar bears, unfortunately.
The world would be a much, much better place of AGW scam artists were regularly eaten by polar bears.
But, but, there are no bears in Antarctica