Friday, April 8, 2011

The North Pole!

The team finally reached the north Pole today! The departed early in the morning and were at the North Pole by mid day. The charter flight is approximately 2.5 hours to an ice runway and basecamp called Borneo. Once at Borneo the team had a meal before heading on to the North Pole by helicopter.

The Borneo runway and basecamp from the air.


The MI-8 helicopter that flew the team to the North Pole.

Where is the North Pole? It can actually be hard to find!
Standing at the North Pole is an incredible experience. One is surrounded by snow and ice, and nothing else, for as far as they eye can see. There is nothing at the North Pole, no markers and signs, and one truly has the feeling that they are at the end of the Earth. It can be hard to describe so we will let the team members do the honors in the audio blogs below:



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