Hollow Earth Expedition

Tell me if this story in The National Post strikes you the way it did me.
Richard Foot writes: This time next year, Kentucky based physicist and futurist Brooks Agnew hopes to board the commercially owned Russian icebreaker Yamal in the port of Murmansk, and to sail into the polar sea just beyond Canada's Arctic islands.

"Everest has been climbed a hundred times," Mr. Agnew says. "The Titanic has been scanned from stem to stern. [But] this is the first and only expedition to the North Pole opening ever attempted."
Foot attributes the revival of interest in Hollow Earth studies to the book by David Standish, titled Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous. Don't you think it's amazing, that we have satellite technology and the most advanced boats, jets, submarines and land rovers in the history of Mankind and yet we still don't know for sure what's up there?