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Friday 26th April 10.21a.m. Sunny and cool, 14.8 / 18.5kph SSW, Hg 52%, 17.6C / 63.7F top of 20C / 68F. Sunny.

Moon is 96% two days to sow all root crops.

Polar explorer gears up for trek to study Greenland's shrinking ice sheet​

Adrian McCallum has developed a unique training regime to prepare for the trek. (ABC Sunshine Coast: Jessica Ross)

The rolling green hills of Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland are the last place you would expect to find a polar explorer training for an Arctic expedition.

In the lead-up to a one-month trip to Greenland, ice and snow scientist Adrian McCallum has been dragging tyres around the roads of his hometown of Maleny.

The gruelling workout will help prepare the 53-year-old for the rigours of a human-powered expedition across the dangerous terrain of the North Pole.

He will also need to help the team maintain their health to avoid hypothermia.

"We need to make sure we have good communication because you can't always monitor yourself if you're going downhill," Dr McCallum said.

"It's also a new team in a new environment so team dynamics will come to the fore and we have to work together so that we can successfully stay together, keep moving well together, get the science done and get to the other side after 30 to 40 days," he said.

Dr McCallum's colleagues, who hail from Greenland, Denmark, Germany and Sweden, have been training for the expedition in snowy, icy conditions.

He has had to settle for dragging two tyres roped together and attached to his waist as he trains in the heat and humidity of a Queensland summer.

The regime has helped his fitness — but his diet will soon change dramatically.

"One of the primary foods we'll be eating is butter and that's because butter is the most calorie dense food that we can carry for the weight we have," Dr McCallum said.

The explorers will also need to contend with deadly twin threats in and on the ice.

"On the edges of the islands we need to be aware of polar bears because they're of course looking for food and we could be a food source," the explorer said.

"And we do need to be very careful about how we move onto the ice cap itself because of crevasses.

"A very experienced Scandinavian explorer unfortunately died in a crevasse only a year or two ago so unfortunately it still happens."

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Friday 26th April 10.21a.m. Sunny and cool, 14.8 / 18.5kph SSW, Hg 52%, 17.6C / 63.7F top of 20C / 68F. Sunny.

Moon is 96% two days to sow all root crops.

Polar explorer gears up for trek to study Greenland's shrinking ice sheet​

Adrian McCallum has developed a unique training regime to prepare for the trek. (ABC Sunshine Coast: Jessica Ross)

The rolling green hills of Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland are the last place you would expect to find a polar explorer training for an Arctic expedition.

In the lead-up to a one-month trip to Greenland, ice and snow scientist Adrian McCallum has been dragging tyres around the roads of his hometown of Maleny.

The gruelling workout will help prepare the 53-year-old for the rigours of a human-powered expedition across the dangerous terrain of the North Pole.

He will also need to help the team maintain their health to avoid hypothermia.

"We need to make sure we have good communication because you can't always monitor yourself if you're going downhill," Dr McCallum said.

"It's also a new team in a new environment so team dynamics will come to the fore and we have to work together so that we can successfully stay together, keep moving well together, get the science done and get to the other side after 30 to 40 days," he said.

Dr McCallum's colleagues, who hail from Greenland, Denmark, Germany and Sweden, have been training for the expedition in snowy, icy conditions.

He has had to settle for dragging two tyres roped together and attached to his waist as he trains in the heat and humidity of a Queensland summer.

The regime has helped his fitness — but his diet will soon change dramatically.

"One of the primary foods we'll be eating is butter and that's because butter is the most calorie dense food that we can carry for the weight we have," Dr McCallum said.

The explorers will also need to contend with deadly twin threats in and on the ice.

"On the edges of the islands we need to be aware of polar bears because they're of course looking for food and we could be a food source," the explorer said.

"And we do need to be very careful about how we move onto the ice cap itself because of crevasses.

"A very experienced Scandinavian explorer unfortunately died in a crevasse only a year or two ago so unfortunately it still happens."

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