Ice Warriors Plan Epic Journey Across The Arctic Using Mindjet MindManager

Mindjet Corporation, a global leader in software for visualising and using information, today announced the completion of a 5-year process using MindManager to plan an extraordinary ‘Ice Warrior’ epic expedition which is taking place during March and April this year.

This latest expedition with a team of novices, marshalled by world famous Arctic-explorer, Jim McNeill, will attempt an extreme polar journey that will thoroughly explore the North West Passage. Jim will then return to his base camp in Resolute Bay, the second most northerly community in Canada before attempting

to reach the Northern Pole of Inaccessibility in a crucial scientific exploration of the Arctic Ocean, by aircraft. The pole otherwise known as the Arctic Pole, has never before been reached and stands as the very last World First in Polar history. The planning for this epic journey started in 2003 under the leadership of Jim and with the use of MindManager, a visual information mapping tool. The software was used by the Ice Warrior team to plan all their logistics and critical contingency measures down to the extreme detail during the preparation of this human endurance test.

The journey for the novices started on March 5th when Jim began a 50 day trek with the group, taking them through the North West Passage; a potential sea route through the northern part of Canada, which connects Europe with the Far East, shaving nearly 4000 miles off of the existing journey. The effects of global climate change are decreasing the amount of sea-ice in the passage making the route increasingly viable to mainline shipping; something which will drastically affect the whole area and its people. Ice Warrior will be conducting a series of experiments to measure global climate change while in route.

The use of MindManager figured centrally in the planning of this colossal project and provided an intuitive visual interface that rapidly captured, organised, and displayed information as intuitive data maps. The tool was used for visually organising complex information in the most precise detail and was paramount in planning the expedition logistics and all possible contingencies, including route plans, emergency scenarios and evacuations.