Kenneth DeSoto wrote:

| I hate to correct you, but you can walk from the North pole to Alaska,
while
| it's still frozen!  It thaws for only a short period of time, then it
| freezes again.  BTW, it's southwest.....

Sorry, Kenneth, it's south.  If you're standing on the North Pole, the
only direction you can walk is south.  There is no east or west at the
North Pole.