The first time Torfi Johansson passed over ice northwest of Taloyoak, Nunavut, in a modified Ford F-150 truck — the ice had been 50 centimetres thick.
So it came as a shock to him, and the rest of the Transglobal Car Expedition, when on the return journey from Resolute Bay to Cambridge Bay a few days later, the vehicle he was driving stopped in that area and began to sink.
There was a “lot of noise,” said Johansson. “I knew right away what was going on.”
The Icelandic man grabbed his radio and told the vehicle up ahead that his truck
