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Today we got started, flying out to the Barneo Ice Station in a Russian
Antonov 74 jet. Barneo Ice Station is the final gateway to the north for
explorers and adventurers like me—just 100 kilometres away from the
geographic North Pole. It opens in spring after Russian Hind helicopters
locate a flat, smooth, stable surface on the ice for the base, and engineers
build a runway that can accommodate supply and transport planes and
a camp. The ice station closes down at the end of April, and each year it
has to be rebuilt, thanks to the shifting ice flows at the top of the world.
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