On the way to Uelen
On 6th April, Karl and Dimitri flew from Anadyr north to Lavrentiya. The intention had been to leave for Uelen on 9th April in a convoy of all-terrain (vezde hod) vehicles. However, an e-mail was received from Dimitri on Tuesday 10th April, stating that there had been unusually strong storms in the area and everything was closed down. The convoy would leave when the storms had passed. We haven’t heard anything further from either K or D and it is expected that they have made their way to Uelen and have set off walking.
Prior to leaving Anadyr they had been lent a sat phone as their own personal sat phones (and emergency beacons) were still in the hands of the authorities. They have their GPS’s though and most everything else they require.
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Karl in the news (picture) on today’s CNN edition, related to tunnel linking Alaska and Russia. Hopefully he can contribute a lot to any feasibility study as Damitri and he would be the only people to give a first hand inisght on what lies ahead/beneath ! Good luck on the rest of the trip..
Tunnel is old joke.
Lost expedition masters team “Sozvezdie” is new enigma: http://www.namvamtuda.ru/
“Sozvezdie” team found out.Chief Romanenkov said: We simply don’t want abandon with Chukotka.
Joke of year!