Abstract :
"THERE HAVE been times when I\´ve felt like a walking test laboratory," says David Hempleman-Adams, recalling an Arctic expedition where he had samples of his company\´s industrial adhesives packed away in his explorer\´s sled. "We would put our products through various procedures in our cold chamber back home to see how they stood up to low temperatures. Then I\´d take them out into the field. Of course, the results we got back from the Arctic were never the same."