News
This section is featuring the latest news regarding adventure in the polar regions and from the expeditions we are following closely.
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Welcome to America : a new start for Borge
Published on 07.09.2010 - The Northern Passage 2010
Borge Ousland and his shipmates are now through with the Northeast Passage. After 74 days of sailing off the Siberian coast, team has arrived safely at Point Barrow, Alaska, last sunday evening. Men and trimaran are tired. But the adventure goes on.
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They have passed their first ices
Published on 24.08.2010 - The Northern Passage 2010
Borge Ousland and his two shipmates have just successfully negotiated their first crossing of ice-barrier. Everything was on their side: a good meteorologist, good glaciologists and an excellent trimaran!
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Where Ancestors Have Gone Before
Published on 13.08.2010 - The Northern Passage 2010
Borge and his two shipmates have just crossed 90 degrees longitude East.They’re sailing along the Tamir coast and are going to encounter places that some of their famous predecessors have made legendary.
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Robert F. Scott’s Centenary
Published on 08.08.2010
This summer, there is worldwide celebration of the centenary of the departure from the Welsh port of Cardiff -on 15 June 1910- of the `Terra Nova Expedition' led by the famous English explorer, Robert Falcon Scott, who went to the Antarctic with the objective of being the first person to get to the South Pole.
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First encounter with ice
Published on 06.08.2010 - The Northern Passage 2010
After going through the Strait of Yugorsky and leaving Europe behind them, the three sailors are now sailing on the open Kara Sea. They have just encountered their first pack ice debris. Everything on board is OK.
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The adventure has started
Published on 02.08.2010 - The Northern Passage 2010
After a brief week of administrative delay in the first Russian port, Murmansk, the three navigators have taken to the sea in order to head east. The great adventure has started…
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Assessment of the Adventure
Published on 01.08.2010 - The Great Drift
The Robinsons-on-Ice have had to face reality: their idea of letting themselves drift on an ice floe long enough to note the melting of the pack ice with their very own eyes was not entirely achievable. Here, to bring the adventure to an end, is a rapid assessment of their experiment.
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At the Heart of Chaos
Published on 21.07.2010 - The Great Drift
The Robinsons-on-Ice no longer know which saint to venerate. All the pack ice is breaking up before their very eyes. They’re still however looking for an ice floe that’s big enough for them to live on for a while.
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Heading East
Published on 21.07.2010 - The Northern Passage 2010
After a technical halt of a few days in order to put the finishing touches to the preparations, Borge Ousland and his crew have set out again towards the great North-East Passage adventure.
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Bye Bye Greenland
Published on 17.07.2010
The final two expeditions that were still out on the Greenland icecap have now returned home. See you all next year for more crossings.
