The team have trained in Norway
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Three office workers from Somerset have signed up to a 280-mile trek to the Magnetic North Pole.
They are one of seven teams taking part in the Polar Challenge 2004, due to start on 6 April in Canada.
The three workers, from health insurer WPA in Taunton, have just completed an intensive training programme in Norway.
Tansy Hanson, team member, said: "We had temperatures down to minus 15 or 20 degrees Celsius. Nothing you can have, do or see will prepare us for this."
Training included how to deal with polar bears, and immersion in freezing water.
Team member Richard Tutill said: "When I hit icy water, the adrenalin kicked in. I was in a sleeping bag for 30 minutes and it took my feet a long time to warm up."
The race is expected to last three weeks and takes place in three stages, from Polaris in Canada to Bathurst Island; onto King Christian Island and finally, to the Magnetic North Pole.
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