In July 2021, the famous traveler, writer and artist Fyodor Konyukhov will deploy to the Arctic
The first to deliver it to the North Poleexpedition of the Polar Travel Club Poseidon Expeditions (July 11–22, 2021) on the icebreaker “50 Let Pobeda” of 124 participants—everyone will be able to communicate with the great traveler, learn about his experience of wanderings and discoveries, and support him for the upcoming single drift. Having reached the highest point of the planet, the captain, together with the Poseidon Expeditions team, will select a multi-year ice floe that suits its parameters and will land the traveler on it.
It is assumed that in 10 days the travelerdeviate from the North Pole at a distance of up to 100 km. The camp will be equipped with everything necessary for survival in the Arctic: two life-support kits (main and backup), which will include a tent, a satellite terminal, a security system to scare off polar bears, a satellite tracking system, a walkie-talkie, and equipment.
The essence of Konyukhov's research is to studyclimate change at the North Pole and care for the purity of the World Ocean. The scientific agenda of the expedition was prepared in cooperation with the Institute of Oceanology. PP Shirshov RAS, which will provide the traveler with the necessary research equipment. The trip will take place with the information support of the Roscongress Foundation.
The second will be engaged in the search for the travelerthe Poseidon Expeditions Polar Travel Club expedition, which is scheduled to start on 22 July. The search and selection operation will be led by the son of the traveler and the head of his expeditionary headquarters - Oskar Konyukhov.
Fedor Filippovich Konyukhov - Soviet andThe Russian traveler, who circumnavigated the world five times alone, crossed the Atlantic 17 times, once in a rowing boat. The first Russian to visit all the Seven Summits, alone at the South and North Poles (the so-called Explorers Grand Slam). Winner of the national Crystal Compass award and Guinness World Records. The first person in the world to reach the five poles of our planet: Northern geographic (three times), Southern geographic, Pole of relative inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean, Everest (height pole), Cape Horn (yachtsmen's pole). He was the first in Russia to reach the North and South Poles on skis, the first to make a solo circumnavigation of the world, the first to complete the “Seven Summits” program, the first to cross the ocean in a rowing boat, and the first to fly around the world in a hot air balloon.
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