Why this man is going to live on an iceberg

N-ICE place you’ve got there. One adventurer is planning to spend an entire year living adrift on a melting iceberg to highlight climate change.

This man is going to live on an iceberg

NO electricity, no hot water, no company and freezing temperatures. An iceberg is hardly the place one would choose to live but one man is calling it home for a WHOLE year.

Adventurer Alex Bellini, 36, is on a mission to find an iceberg where he’ll reside upon until it melts in an effort to highlight climate change. His Adrift project will see him be the first person ever to attempt to live on a piece of drifting ice, which will gradually dissipate after breaking off a glacier in Greenland.

His website reads: “As the iceberg will get smaller and less stable Alex Bellini will have to adapt himself to the new situation. In order to survive for as long as possible, Alex Bellini will have to adapt his lifestyle and habits. This will be crucial to getting people to think, to make parallels with everyday life characterised by a total lack of willingness to change and adapt.”

The idea is to prove how ice melting has accelerated over the decades as a result of our pollution and the rise in global warming. Once the iceberg melts he says he will continue to float in the ocean in his living module until he washes ashore.

Bellini, who is no stranger to a challenge, has run countless marathons including a jog from New York to Los Angeles and rowed across both Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This icy endurance test will see him live in a Kevlar module with dehydrated food and a few mod cons including equipment that will be powered by a rowing machine generator.

His search for the perfect iceberg (more flat, than your stereotypical peak) continues with the target for his big move planned for early 2015.

Originally published as Why this man is going to live on an iceberg