Ultimate Arctic Crossing - part 3

March 26 - DAY 30 / The last straw! While Dixie and Alain were experiencing the worst possible conditions for making progress (since the departure, that is to say just 30 days ago, they put on their skis only once, for 4 hours!), here they were now confronted with a new and completely unexpected obstacle: a north wind and a negative drift, that is to say a drift that was "taking them back" to the Siberian coast.

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