Olympic flame makes bold foray into far north

The torch was carried across the frozen Nunavut tundra by 20 hardy runners who called themselves 'The Frozen Chosen'.

The relay is the longest in Olympic Games history and day 10 is the nearest the torch will get to the North Pole.

On Sunday night, torchbearer George Stewart took part by lighting the community caldron in Alert, the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, located 800 kilometers from the North Pole.

The torch is specially built to handle temperatures of minus-50 degrees Celsius and the temperature Sunday night dipped to minus-28.

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