04/05/2014 Newsround
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Good morning, Ricky here with an amazing Arctic trek to come. Let's | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
start with the news that some head teachers are backing the idea of | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
making your summer holidays shorter. Heads from one teaching union will | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
the government to consider cutting the traditional six-week break and | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
spread holidays more evenly throughout the year instead. It's | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
only a suggestion, but the government IS planning to let | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
schools have more of a say on holidays in the future. | :00:29. | :00:41. | |
Next, to the twins taking on the toughest challenge of their lives. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Right now, Hugo and Ross are trekking hundreds of miles across | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Greenland, but there's a twist to their journey. One of the brothers | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
is wearing kit worn by explorers 100 years ago. The other is wearing | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
modern clothing. The idea is to test how their bodies react to the bitter | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
cold. Hugo and Ross are identical twins. They've spent months | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
preparing for a very different Arctic expedition. The brothers will | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
check 340 miles across the Greenland polar icecap to try to raise | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
thousands of pounds for charity. The experience will be different for | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
each of them. Hugo will be dressed in modern protective clothing while | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Ross will wear the kit used by polar explorers 100 years ago. The | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
brothers decided who would wear what by flipping a coin. The experiment | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
will allow researchers to monitor if and how Hugo benefits from advances | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
in modern technology. They began the trek earlier in the week. How is | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
Ross coping wearing the kit Explorers war years ago? | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
When I stop for a few minutes I can start to feel the wind through | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
here. I've got a thin jumper. I've got three socks and I need to know | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
how the shoes and socks performed so I've tripled up to make sure I don't | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
get frostbite. A pair of trousers, mitts, a hat and a balaclava. I'm | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
very comfortable. They are being guided by the world | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
record-holder for the longest ever unsupported journey in Greenland. | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
The weather today is not great but it is what it is. We are warm, fed | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
and watered so in my eyes that is a happy team. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
All going well, the trek should take about 22 days. | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
A baby monkey is still missing after thieves broke -- broke into | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
Blackpool zoo. Five of the monkeys were returned yesterday. Plenty more | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
on that and loads more from Newsround today so join us at | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
11:55am to find out how this big hill in Bristol is being turned into | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
a massive water slide. See you soon. | :02:59. | :03:00. |
