The Swiss with an ice cold taste for adventure
Thomas Ulrich is trying to make it as the first person to cross the Arctic solo and on foot. How many kilogrammes of butter will he eat, who makes his sledges and how does he scare off polar bears? swissinfo.ch went to meet him at his base in Interlaken.
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