If you check out
this episode of Coast2Coast Am, where George Noory interviews Brooks Agnew, you will hear Agnew mention that there is some kind of recent ban on public surveilance of the poles. Also, the pole are regularly covered over by dense clouds, any way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJU2c...x=0&playnext=1
To get around those inconveniences, Agnew is going "to embark on the expedition in August 2009, traveling to the Arctic region aboard a nuclear powered icebreaker. A helicopter and ship stored in the icebreaker will be used to advance scout for a hole that might exist in the curvature of the crust..."
Cool
