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Expeditions
Here we present the most exciting expeditions and unique journeys. The world is growing smaller, but it is bigger than you think. Some people visualize the opportunities for others, and make our lives exciting to live.
View the world with no secrets: you can consider it in two ways: both as a threat and a opportunity. Some ways people live their lifes will surprise you...
Scottish woman crossed Greenlands ice cap
2004-02-22
An Scottish woman, Sue Stockdale, has recently finished a tour across the Greenland, reports the travel magazine Global Adventure. Together with three other explorers from Norway and Germany she made it. She is the first British woman to walk to the magnetic North Pole.
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The tour started from Kangerlussuaq on the 28th April and finished in Isortoq on the east coast 28 days later. One interesting thing about this expedition was that the four adventures had different background. None of them knew each other before they started the trek. You can see; opposite poles attracts!
The efforts must have been strong since they have walked a distance of 560 km and with 8000 feet of ascent. The temperate has been as low as minus 35 degree Celsius.
Sue Stockdale and the others have prepared themselves well for the trekking. Cold and exhaustion were two big challenges. Sue carried a sleeping-bag liner manufactured by Norso Biomagnetics, a healthcare company that specialises in the use of magnets for pain relief and physical well-being.
Her sleeping bag liner was covered in hundreds of wafer-thin magnetic discs, intended to restore aching muscles and warm up quicker than the sleeping bag alone. This equipment has worked well, and been very useful for reaching their big target: crossing the Greenland.
Stein Morten Lund, 15 December 2000
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Meeting the Mudmen
in Papua New Guinea
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