Traveler Fedor Konyukhov reported to Telegramthat he planned to set two world records in the Arctic at once.
“This point has beckoned me all my life. A person who has been to the North Pole once will always strive to return to these coordinates,” the traveler admitted.
In the summer of 2024, the nuclear-powered icebreaker “50 Let Pobedy” will deliver Konyukhov and pilot Igor Potapkin to the Franz Josef Land archipelago. Travelers will try to set a new world record for flight distance on a two-seater motorized paraglider – a paraglider – in the high latitudes of the Arctic. To do this, they will fly more than 600 kilometers over the Arctic Ocean towards the point of the geographic North Pole – 90 degrees north latitude.
The takeoff and landing of the paraglider will take place in conditions of drifting ice. After landing, Konyukhov will deploy a single drifting polar station in the ocean. The traveler will spend two weeks in the camp, equipped with everything necessary for survival and autonomous work. Continuing to carry out the scientific program of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Konyukhov will study the seismic activity of the bottom of the Arctic Ocean and the drift routes of its ice cover.
Previously, Konyukhov and Potapkin had already tried it fly to the North Pole by paraglider – the travelers managed to cover 169 kilometers out of 900 planned. Weather conditions prevented them from continuing their journey, and the crew had to commit forced landing in the Arctic ice.
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