News

This section is featuring the latest news regarding adventure in the polar regions and from the expeditions we are following closely.

• The season ahead in Antarctica: women take centre-stage

  Published on 15.11.2009 - General Info

  For this southern summer season, over half of the hopefuls aiming to reach the South Pole are women. And some of them have no experience at all of life in the polar regions.

• Going East

  Published on 12.08.2009 - Arctic Calling

  Slowly but surely, the Brittany sailboat Baloum Gwen pursues its progression to the East, despite the headwind and dangerous ice cover.

• Coming to a Difficult End

  Published on 30.07.2009 - Kite Greenland 2009

  Adrian Hayes' expedition team made it to the west coast of Greenland on 25 July, after 67 days and 4,262 km of travel. The last few days of the trip were the most difficult ones.

• Onward to the East

  Published on 22.07.2009 - Arctic Calling

  After having spent one week moored in the bay of Point Barrow, the Baloum Gwen ship is now sailing out eastward. Two other sailing ships are trying the same route.

• Nearing Qaanaaq (Thulé)

  Published on 22.07.2009 - Emirates NBD Greenland Quest

  Despite the headwind and difficult meteorological conditions, the three men are nearing their destination. Just a few hundred kilometers left.

• The end of an arduous expedition

  Published on 15.07.2009 - Emirates NBD Greenland Quest

  Because no-one has previously completed the route from JP Kocks fjord all the way to Thulé, the three men had no idea what they were letting themselves in for.

• A lovely week in Wainwright, except for one thing…

  Published on 15.07.2009 - Arctic Calling

  The crew of the Baloum Gwen spent a very pleasant week in this tiny port at the end of the Earth. But...

• The end of their dream

  Published on 15.07.2009 - General Info

  The three explorers who had decided to drift on an ice floe from the east coast of Greenland have ended their adventure. The end of a dream.

• A highly professional adventure

  Published on 06.07.2009 - Emirates NBD Greenland Quest

  Adrian Hayes and his two companions, Devon McDiarmid and Derek Crowe, have now reached the most northerly point of Greenland. This expedition is leaving virtually no stone unturned as it progresses by always explaining the hows and the wherefores of what it is doing...

• No word from the ‘dreamers’

  Published on 06.07.2009 - General Info

  It has been over a week now since there was an update to the website of the expedition that set out to drift through the Arctic sea-ice aboard an ice floe.

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