Ultimate Arctic Crossing - part 3

Thursday April 18 - DAY 53 / This announcement (see the caption of the previous photograph) was something of a bombshell. Indeed, because of the slowness of their pace, they would never be able to reach the pole before the fateful date given by the Canadians of First Air (the 3rd week of May). They were just starting to mourn their initial project, when they had to accept some more terrible evidence: yhey would probably not even be able to reach the North Pole at all!

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