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  • 2017 - This Man Plans to Live Alone on an Iceberg for a Year (only 4.73 years left)

    05/03/2026 11:05:45 AM PDT · by Libloather · 25 replies
    EcoWatch ^ | 8/07/17
    If everything goes to plan, Alex Bellini could become the first person to live on an iceberg, where temperatures hover between 5 to −4 degrees Fahrenheit and gale-force winds blow. The 38-year-old Italian public speaker and adventurer, who crossed two oceans alone on a row boat and ran across the U.S. in 70 days, recently spoke about his project, Adrift, a years’-long ambition to live in a survival capsule on a Greenland iceberg. Once a suitable iceberg is selected, Bellini plans to conduct research on climate change‘s affect on ice sheets and to test the limits of human endurance and...
  • (2014) 'Professional adventurer' to live on an ICEBERG for a year to highlight climate change

    07/07/2018 3:12:08 AM PDT · by Libloather · 77 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 8/24/14 | Damien Gayle
    A self-styled adventurer is to spend a year living on a melting iceberg off the coast of Greenland to try to draw attention to climate change. In spring next year Alex Bellini, 36, will find a suitable iceberg off the north west of Greenland where he will remain until it melts. He hopes his stunt will raise awareness of the impact of global warming, which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently warned is 'widespread and consequential'.