Swedish Adventurer Goeran Kropp, suffering from a frostbitten thumb, was picked up early Monday by a rescue helicopter after skiing only half way to the North Pole.
His partner, Ola Skinnarmo, continued alone in the quest to be the first Swede at the North Pole. The two left the northern Russian island of Novaya Zemlya on Feb. 27 and were expected to ski the 600 miles in 55 days.
``The North Pole will still be there and I can always try again later,'' Kropp, 33, said.
He was to be taken to a hospital in Sweden.
In 1996 Kropp rode his bicycle from Sweden to Nepal, scaled Mount Everest without oxygen, then biked back home.
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