Teenager's 60-mile Arctic trip to warn of climate change

A London teenager is making a 60-mile trek across an Arctic wilderness to make a film teaching children about climate change.

Louise Biddle, 19, faces freezing temperatures, 24-hour sunlight and 100mph winds during the trip organised by explorer Antony Jinman, 28. The pair, who will be joined by 22-year-old filmmaker Josie Beynon, plan to chart the changes in a glacier on Baffin Island in northern Canada.

A film of their adventures will then be given to schools around the country. Miss Biddle, who is in her first year of an Earth Sciences degree at Oxford, said: "It will be the ultimate adventure with a powerful message attached."

Mr Jinman, who regularly takes groups to Mount Kilimanjaro, said he hoped their film would be "an eye-opener". The group will trek through a national park named Auyuittuq, which translates as "the land that never melts".

They will negotiate fjords, glaciers, and ice fields around Mount Thor and Mount Asgard, a 2,600ft ice face which featured in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

Mr Jinman said: "Last year there was a flood because of ice which melted off the glacier and walkers had to be airlifted out." They are funding next month's trip but are seeking sponsorship.