Prince Harry jokes about Arctic night

Prince Harry has joked about spending the night sleeping in a tent in the Arctic as he prepares for an expedition to the North Pole. Skip related content

When told that the temperatures had been as low as minus 25C the previous night, he said: "Is that all it was, minus 25C? It felt a lot colder than that in there. It was good.

"Here, at least we're on ground. Spending the night on frozen ice wasn't something I had planned on doing, but everyone else is doing it, so I might as well do it as well," he continued.

The prince shared a tent with team leader Inge Solheim, and quipped: "There are things that happened in that tent I never want to speak of ever again."

The royal set up camp with his guides on Wednesday night in a valley near Longyearbyen, a town on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen.

Harry is patron of the Walking With The Wounded charity, which wants to raise ?2 million to help injured servicemen find work and peace of mind after they leave the armed forces.

He is spending the rest of the day getting ready: "I think we're preparing for leaving, which is going to take a while."

Harry joins the North Pole trip for five days.

Polar bears have been known to roam the area, so the prince and his tent companions slept with rifles on hand, in case one of the animals threatened them.

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