
April 2013. As a response to the ongoing oil race and territorial claim of the Arctic an expedition organized by Greenpeace trekked to the North Pole and placed a time capsule, containing 2.7 million signatures, 4km down on the seabed. The capsule will float back to the surface in around 50 years with a message to the future.

April 2013. As a response to the ongoing oil race and territorial claim of the Arctic an expedition organized by Greenpeace trekked to the North Pole and placed a time capsule, containing 2.7 million signatures, 4km down on the seabed. The capsule will float back to the surface in around 50 years with a message to the future.

Adam Shore, Greenpeace Lead logistics coordinator, takes a break during the trek towards the North Pole.

Panorama North PoleThis images has been digitally modified by stiching images together into a panorama.

Panorama Greenpeace expedition North PoleThis images has been digitally modified by stiching images together into a panorama.

Kiera Kolson from Canada, an Arctic ambassador with the North Pole expedition team, during a trek to the North Pole.

Detail of the time capsule photographed at the North Pole. A “flag for the future” is attached to the glass and titanium time capsule containing 2.7 million names of supporters who wish to protect the Arctic. A Greenpeace team will lower the capsule and a ‘flag for the future’ to the seabed beneath the North Pole.