During the summer of 2018 the PolarQuest 2018 ship expedition
cruised to the North Pole region. One of the four experiments installed on the
boat was PolarquEEEst, a cosmic ray detector developed within the Extreme
Energy Events project. The PolarquEEEst purpose is to measure the cosmic
ray flux at sea level and at extreme latitudes in a very poorly explored
region. The POLA-01 detector, designed to fit the strong requirements for
an on-board installation, is composed of two planes (four tiles each) of
scintillators. Two similar detectors POLA-02 and POLA-03 were also
installed in fixed locations, in Norway and Italy respectively, to be
used as a reference. The high stability of the POLA-01 detector in the
whole period allowed to collect data from $66^\circ$\,N to $82^\circ$\,N
latitudes and to look for variations on the cosmic ray flux when moving
towards the North Pole, using POLA-02 and POLA-03 measurements to remove
time-fluctuations affecting the flux. The first results collected during
the expedition will be reported. The PolarquEEEst mission continued
its trip in Italy to perform measurement down to $35^\circ$\,N with
POLA-01, which has been recently installed with POLA-03 and the newely
built POLA-04 in the Svalbard islands to collect data for a long period.