Man plans to live on iceberg for a year

Man plans to live on iceberg for a year

A man is planning to live on an iceberg for a year.

''I want to prove how the pace of ice-melting has dramatically accelerated over the last decades.''

Alex Bellini will embark on a solo journey across three different oceans to Greenland next year to search for a suitable iceberg in an effort to highlight climate issues.

Once he finds a block of ice big enough to create a home on, he will live there for 12 months while it slowly melts, living off a diet of dried food.

Speaking about his upcoming challenge, he told Motherboard: ''My objective is reporting and investigating by means of scientific methods, the entire lifetime of an iceberg.

''I want to prove how the pace of ice-melting has dramatically accelerated over the last decades.''