Russian staff members responsible for the building of the ice runway at Barneo dropped out of the Ilyushin-76 from Murmansk at a suitable runway location near the North Pole. courtesy Barneo Ice Station
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(Correne Coetzer) The orange Cessna, Polar Pumpkin, with owner and pilot Art Mortvedt, is heading towards the Geographic North Pole again. Barneo’s ice runway is open and two flights were in already; a technical flight and a client flight. During the previous two Arctic ski seasons Italian Michele Pontrandolfo attempted to ski from Canada to the North Pole, saying to himself, perhaps only the devil goes there. This season he is back on stable ice for a Greenland crossing from the south to Qaanaaq in the north-west with team mate Marco Martinuzz. Barneo Ice StationBarneo’s ice runway is completed. Departing from Longyearbyen, Svalbard,...
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