The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven

I finished the the book of doooooom. ( Spoiler cut in case you care )

Afterward, I rewatched the Top Gear polar special to see some of the landscape described in the book. And though those guys are idiots and were using technology far superior to that available a century ago, it's still a forbidding and dangerous place. (Though I wonder how they got everyone back from the North Pole once they'd gotten there.)