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70-year old Russian voyager prepares for North Pole paragliding expedition

epa11167830 Russian voyager Fyodor Konyukhov attends a press conference about the preparation of a motor paragliding expedition to the North Pole scheduled for Summer 2024, at the TASS news agency headquarters in Moscow, Russia, 20 February 2024. The Russian Arktika-class nuclear-powered icebreaker ?50 Let Pobedy? will take the expedition to the Franz Josef Land archipelago where the journey will begin towards the North Pole. 70-year-old Fyodor Konyukhov, together with pilot Igor Potapkin, will try to set a record for flight range on a two-seat paraglider, which is a special trolley weighing 150 kilograms with a four-stroke engine and a wing with an area of 42 square meters. Takeoff and landing will take place in the drifting ice of the Arctic. The flight route will be more than 600 kilometers. After landing, the traveler will deploy a single drifting polar station in the Arctic Ocean. In the camp, equipped with everything necessary for survival and autonomous work, the extreme sports enthusiast will spend three weeks carrying out the scientific program of the P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences - to collect data on the drift routes of the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and on the seismic activity at its bottom. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY

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