Rowers cut short record-breaking Arctic mission
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NEW YORK • An international team of rowers has ended a record-breaking expedition through the Arctic Ocean after becoming stranded on a remote Norwegian island partway through their 11/2-month journey.
They had set out to break several world records while using the mission to raise money for a school in the Himalayas.
They achieved 11 of 12 expected world records - related to distance travelled and location in the Arctic - before having to call off their mission on Monday.
Now, it could be at least another week before the crew of six adventurers, whose expedition was called the Polar Row, is evacuated from the island where they sought refuge on Aug 19. The rowers - from Britain, Iceland, India, Norway and the United States - took to sea from the northern coast of Norway on July 20 and headed north to an island on the Svalbard archipelago.