IF YOU were to go out in the street and ask people what the North Pole is
like, most would probably tell you that it is very cold and very difficult to
get to, unless you like hauling sledges across vast sheets of ice while worrying
about attacks by polar bears. A few might also say that you’d see penguins on
the way, but they simply have their poles crossed.
What, till now, you could have been sure of is that no one would tell you
that at the North Pole you should expect to see an expanse of ordinary…
