Last weekend, Russian explorers Fyodor Konyukhov and Viktor Simonov set off on a dog sled expedition from the North Pole.
Last weekend, Russian explorers Fyodor Konyukhov and Viktor Simonov set off on a dog sled expedition from the North Pole.
The expedition is unique in its extensive exploration of higher latitudes. The explorers will cover over 4,000 kilometers (about 2,500 miles) until they reach the southern shores of Greenland in August.
The dog sled expedition will begin in April and end in August 2013, and the explorers will take a route previously deemed impassable. Photo: Russian explorers Viktor Simonov, left, with son, Makar, and Fyodor Konyukhov before the start of the Karelia –North Pole –Greenland expedition.
They will cover over 4,000 kilometers (about 2,500 miles) from Karelia to the North Pole until they reach the southern shores of Greenland.
A sled dog before the start of the Karelia –North Pole –Greenland expedition at the Matrosy village in the Republic of Karelia’s Pryazhinsky District.
During the expedition the explorers will conduct some tests, the results of which will later be used in designing devices adapted for extreme Arctic conditions.
They will test a short-wave transmitter, a marine emergency beacon and an aeronautical emergency radio station. Photo: Russian explorer Fyodor Konyukhov tests radio communications.
Konyukhov and Simonov’s sled will be pulled by ten Chukotka sled dogs. There will be two back-up dogs in case one of the dogs gets injured.
“Meet us at the end. We will see each other in August, God willing,” Fyodor Konyukhov said before the start of the expedition.
