Did anyone see this doc on rte1 last night. It was pretty interesting in that Ive always wondered what that huge russian frozen coast was like. However I found a few things a bit irritating. Firstly they proclaimed themselves to be the first to traverse this passage westwards in a sailing boat. However the reality was that they either followed or were towed by a russian icebreaker when they became trapped in ice. Secondly they were initially heavily critical of their russian guide (who they were forced to bring with them by the russian authorities). However it was later shown that they would not have completed the journey without him. He used his contacts in the russian navy to make a russian icebreaker sail 100 miles out of its path to free them from ice. Even though I thought it was a very interesting doc I thought they should have been a bit more humility in recognising that they acieved their feat more from russian help than purely from their own graft.