Toyotas in the Arctic & Antarctic

Yes an interesting article.

More or less ho hum to me. I do live in Canada and every winter it gets down to around minus 30 or lower and roads are sometimes ploughed. Trips out on the weekend can be amusing to say the least.

If those conditions are of interest you could also look up the ice roads across to the diamonds (BHP owned) in the Yukon etc.

Just a tad different to driving in the High Country of Australia.

I guess thats why we return home each northern winter to drive around the desert or sit on our butts in the Kimberley .. lol

“No-one done before” is waste understatement or even disinformation (you also can call it luck of information if you wish). Russians had been on North Pole 3 times by “Lada-Niva”. Could not find English variant, but you welcome to look at Russian one.. Here is free translation.
Records made by “Niva”
1998 climb to base camp at Everest 5200m
1999 climb Tibetan Plato in Himalayas 5726m
1998 been in North Pole – been dropped by parachute and finished track by its own
12 years serve on Russia base on Antarctic and done 40 thousand km.
1999 and 2000
Lada-Niva-Marsh (special modification of “Niva”) been on North Pole.

Cheers
Serg