Maxime Chaya - North Pole Expedition
Open Lead freezing over

We made great mileage on a beautiful day, but also crossed 2 big leads (one about 1.5 miles wide!)…

On the wider lead we were able to find ice that covered most of the lead, but not all of it. For the remaining 35 feet or so, we used a combination of dry suit and catamaraning our sleds to get across. This provided quite a bit of excitement, but hopefully we won’t see too many more!

We made 13.3 nautical miles in 10 hours (25 kilometers!!!).

Our current position in degrees, minutes and seconds is N86.34.30, W78.15.36.

Maxime Chaya via Iridium
Day 33 Briefing in English





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