The ice has receded to such a degree in North Canada that leisure craft sailboats can actually sail from east to west through the fabled NorthWest Passage , during last few Summer seasons , that is a fact , we also know what happened to several boat loads of explorers that tried that same route several decades earlier .... this is Historical fact and it does not make one think that the northern ice is growing larger each year ..... prolly the exact opposite
With a lot of the ice gone on the NW Passage one or two of the old missing boats might turn up. . . .