Facing an April 25 deadline, Tyler Fish '96 of Ely, Minn., and John Huston of Chicago are making a final dash to the North Pole.

Hoping to become the first Americans to ski unsupported - no food drops, no outside help - to the pole, the pair are less than 60 nautical miles away.

"We need to make it to the North Pole by [April 25] or we won't make it," Fish wrote in the expedition blog, part of the educational and fundraising outreach of the expedition.

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