Naomi started with a dream 'I would like to go to the North Pole'. Through pure determination, positive attitude and intense training under the guidence of Michael Garry, Naomi's dream has become a reality and is now about to embark on her to ski to the top of the world and live her dream ...inspirational.Naomi writes from Longyearbyen...... The North Pole lies somewhere over the 4000m deep arctic ocean. So, unlike the South Pole, which is on solid ground the ice is constantly drifting and there is no monument or any such marker defining where the geographic North Pole is. One finds it by compass or GPS at 90º N latitude. I will be skiing the last degree (from 89º), which is roughly 110km.
The North Pole is pretty inaccessible most of year because it is too cold and dark or the ice conditions are not stable. But it is relatively stable during the month of April, and it is during this short period every year when VICAAR, a Russian agency, build a floating ice base called Barneo. Using a Russian Antonov 74 plane, we will be flown 750 miles from Longyearbyen to Barneo. The Russians at Barneo will fly us by MI-8 helicopter to 89º N. They will leave and Thommy, Bengt, Birgit and I will begin to ski towards the Top of the World. You can read more on Naomi's adventure by visiting her blog http://www.ousland.no/
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