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The BBC is billing the Top Gear special - which will also be available in high definition - as the "most ambitious and arduous challenge" yet.
"Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond attempt to race from Northern Canada to the North Pole, 450 miles away," the BBC announced. "The terrain in between is some of the toughest on earth - a mix of mountainous land masses and jagged sea ice where temperatures can drop to a mind-numbing minus 65 degrees Celsius. Jeremy and James will be driving a specially adapted pick up truck whilst Richard will be travelling on something a little less high tech - a sled pulled by a team of ten Canadian Inuit Dogs."
The hour-long special will air at 8pm before NBC's Heroes makes its terrestrial debut at 9pm.
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