On a cruise ship off the coast of Greenland, a group of passengers are trying on immersion suits, high-tech polar gear designed to keep us alive for 24 hours if we fall off our kayaks, assuming we don’t get eaten by a polar bear beforehand.
“I can’t wait to get on the ice,” says Gwen, a 78-year-old former primary school teacher and grandmother of eight from Sydney. She bowls, is learning to play the ukulele and is the first one down the steps and into the Zodiac.
