Happy New Year 2024 (and sorry for the forum being offline some hours) /DM
Please note: The 2019 race field is full but submission of this 2020 application form will put you on the wait list for 2019.
There are 110 men and 32 women who have completed marathons on all 7 continents and at the North Pole. A few more will join this exclusive club after the 2019 North Pole Marathon on April 9th.
In mid-April, 14 school students from Moscow will set out for the North Pole under the Big Arctic Expedition. One of the teams headed by Matvei Shparo is to ski about 100 kilometers toward the Top of the World, with members of the second team conducting experiments at the Barneo drifting station.
How do they know that the ice will not crack right below their feet??
Good news from the North Pole: The construction of a temporary North Pole camp (Barneo) is underway. A Russian logistics crew in Mi-8 choppers have located a suitable ice floe to build a runway and personnel have been air dropped via an IL-76 aircraft.
Two helicopters first flew over the area to find a suitable site for camp. Then came an air drop of people and equipment from an aircraft Il-76.The helicopters in mid-March left Krasnoyarsk and had pit stops in Igarka and Khatanga, Vesti Yamal reports. They then circled over the North Pole ice in search of the best ice floe. People and equipment was put on the ice and preparations made for the air drop.The Il-76 flew from Murmansk on the 27th March after a 5-day delay because of bad weather. On board were several tons of equipment, including barrels of fuel, two tractors, foodstuff and material for building the ice camp, B-port reports.
It is Soviet ice hockey star Vyacheslav Fetisov who is behind the initiative to assemble a bunch of former top players on the Arctic ice. The date of the event is 24th April and the site - the drifting station of Barneo.The interest in the match is huge, Fetisov says to TASS. The International Hockey Federation and the Olympic Committee both support the project, he claims. Invitations have been sent to former top players from a number of countries and some of them have reportedly already confirmed their participation.Extreme sports event have previously been held on the polar ice sheet, but never an ice hockey match of this kind.
Political tensions between Russia and Ukraine have delayed flights to the seasonal Arctic Ocean station known as Barneo. The station has been partly operational for days, but flight permits have been revoked due to a dispute between Ukrainian and Russian authorities. This has ended any chance of the Ukrainian-owned Antonov-74 aircraft ferrying passengers north from Longyearbyen, on the Norwegian arctic island of Spitsbergen.
"Russia’s North Pole Barneo camp season cancelled before it started"https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2019/04/russias-north-pole-barneo-camp-cancelled
There's still no hard news concerning Barneo 2018 .However there has been this brief report in The Independent Barents Observer:the IBO revealed that, :QuoteAs vanishing Arctic ice makes it increasingly difficult to uphold research activities in the highest Arctic, Russia moves ahead with plans to build a research platform for the region. The projected self-propelled platform will have top-level ice protection and be able to move autonomously around in Arctic waters for up to three years, Minister of Natural Resources Sergey Donskoy told RIA Novosti.The active development phase is to begin before June this year and construction will start in 2019, Donskoy confirms.
As vanishing Arctic ice makes it increasingly difficult to uphold research activities in the highest Arctic, Russia moves ahead with plans to build a research platform for the region. The projected self-propelled platform will have top-level ice protection and be able to move autonomously around in Arctic waters for up to three years, Minister of Natural Resources Sergey Donskoy told RIA Novosti.The active development phase is to begin before June this year and construction will start in 2019, Donskoy confirms.
