In 2008 the Red Sox opened the season in Tokyo against the Athletics, an MLB initiative to build the brand in Japan. They took a chartered flight from Boston that went to Tokyo via the pole. I remember seeing a photo (in the Globe, I think) of some of the players looking out the window in the middle of the flight at the ice sheet near the North Pole. I did a quick search online for the picture but couldn't find it. Maybe someone else can?

Years later I flew to Tokyo from Detroit and managed to take my own photo of the ice cap. Coming from Detroit we didn't go directly over the pole but we were a few hundred miles North of the northernmost part of Alaska.