The Adventures Continue
Published on 28.05.2010 - General Info
This summer, Ousland will sail both North Est and North West passages
© Borge Ousland
Polar adventurers endlessly find new challenges, new terrains, new ideas and new seasons. Even the greatest are at it...
In previous years at the same time, we used to close the Arctic Spring season by making an appointment with the Explorapoles surfers for a few months later, at the time when the 'Antarctickers' used to come to the ball, somewhere around mid-November.
This year, the tradition has had to be postponed. Because not only are the Arctic adventures not entirely finished, but also the polar expeditionaries are availing themselves of the summer months in order to take on a new challenge.
The expeditions that have not yet gone home are the ones that are facing the terrain of Greenland as their challenge. For reasons of time and the International Polar Foundation team's availability, we have been unable to follow the adventurers who had undertaken matters on the large Danish island. As the North Pole was greatly in demand last spring and as the adventures that took place there were particularly interesting, we chose to focus as sharply as we could on the fourteen expeditions that set out to conquer the Arctic pack ice.
As of next week, we will be informing our visitors about what has happened in Greenland and about what is still to happen there. It will then be observed that what we have been predicting for two or three seasons, i.e. that this island would play an increasingly important role in polar adventures, has already come true this season, as evidenced by the incredibly large number of sportsmen who, in recent weeks, have visited Greenland's icecap.
We will also be zooming in on the two expeditions that we will be following during the summer of 2010. One is none other than the circumnavigation of the globe at Arctic Circle level by the mega-famous Borge Ousland. The latter will be setting out with two shipmates aboard a trimaran in an attempt to get through the North-East and the North-West passages one after the other. The other is a somewhat crazy attempt by four Frenchmen to allow themselves to drift, with all their equipment and at the behest of the currents off the east coast of Greenland, on a block of ice destined to make its last journey southwards before finally melting.
