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Jeremy Clarkson for a TV special of Top Gear in 2007

James May was passenger. Technically the camera crew and expedition team were there first. kiss my beans x

Do note that they drove to the 1996 location of the magnetic North Pole, not the top of the world (Geographic North Pole). The difference is roughly 1200km.

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The first person to reach the North Pole by car was Sir Ranulph Fiennes in 1982. He accomplished this feat in a specially designed snowmobile traversing over 700 miles of ice and snow.

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