Charles Hedrich (France) plans to travel from the North Pole to the South Pole. He started his first leg from 90°N to Greenland with guide Arnaud Tortel on 5 April 2009.
Keith Heger (USA) and Sebastian Copeland (British/French) completed the last five degrees to the North Pole.
www.humanedgetech.com/expedition/pe2
Dogsled
Ole Jørgen Hammeken, Peary Centenary Expedition
Greenlandic Ole Jørgen Hammeken plans to commemorate Peary’s Centenary to the North Pole with a team of Inuits and dogsleds. They plan to start from Cape Colombia in March and hope to reach the North Pole April 6.
Other North Pole expeditions
Linda Beilharz, Rob Rigato and Kerryn Wratt - North Pole POSTPONED
Australians Linda Beilharz, Rob Rigato and Kerryn Wratt will ski from Ward Hunt Island (Canada) to the North Pole early 2009.
www.icecapjourneys.com.au
Eric Larsen - three poles
American Eric Larsen will try to reach the three poles within just one year in 2009-10.
This feat has never been completed in one year.
To date, only 15 people (no Americans) in history have been to all three ‘poles’. Eric will start with Everest in the Spring of 2009, then ski to the South Pole (2009-10) and then to the North Pole in 2010.
www.ericlarsenexplore.com
www.savethepoles.com
Other Arctic expeditions
Magnetic North Pole
Italian Michele Pontrandolfo will attempt a solo, unsupported expedition to the 1996 Magnetic North Pole at co-ordinates 78° 35'42.00"N, 104° 11'54.00"W. In March his expedition will start from Resolute Bay on Cornwallis Island in Nunavut, Canada. He plans to cover a distance of 600 km.
www.artiko.it
Northern Scandinavian ski traverse
Kim Senger, who was one of the Frozen Five team members in the 2007 Svalbard double-crossing, plans an estimated 650 km ski traverse across northern Norway and Finland from Kirkenes to Storfjord near Tromso. His teammates are Emilie Guegan, Maruška Marušková, Míla Czekala and the expedition dog, Uashee.
www.energicers.com
Lake Baikal
During February and March 2009 Belgium adventurer, Hogan Beernaert (50), will attempt a solo crossing of Lake Baikal in Russia, starting from Koultouk in the south, and sledge-haul to Nyangsgarsk in the north; according to him a distance of 636 km.
www.arcticmountains.be
Baffin Island – Baffin Babes
Swedish, Vera Simonsson and Emma Simonsson, and Ingebjørg Tollefsen and Kristin Folsland Olsen from Norway, will attempt a sledge-hauling ski expedition on Baffin Island. They plan to start early March 2009 and want to cover approximately 1400 km in 80 days. Their route starts from Qikiqtarjuaq via Clyde River, where they will pick up a resupply; then they will ski further to Pond Inlet.
www.humanedgetech.com/expedition/baffinbabes
Lost Patrol - 1600 km - dogsled Canadian Arctic POSTPONED to 2010
In February 2010 Stefan Wackerhagen and Polly Evans are planning a nearly 1000 miles (Herschel Island in the Beaufort Sea to
Dawson City in Canada’s Yukon Territory) dog
sledding expedition in the Canadian Arctic in the footsteps of a fatal routine police patrol of four Mounties a hundred years ago.
www.lostpatrol100.com
GoNorth! Nunavut 2009
GoNorth! is an Arctic adventure learning program that runs over a five-year period (2006 through 2010) with a team of educators, scientists, and explorers dog sledding in five circumpolar Arctic locations. The GoNorth! Nunavut 2009 team members are Mille Porsild (Denmark), Aaron Doering (USA), Mikkel Kettil (Denmark) and Chris Ripken (USA).
www.polarhusky.com
Greenland
Emirates NBD Greenland Atlantic to Arctic 2009
Devon McDiarmid (Canada), Adrian Hayes (UK/UAE) and Derek Crowe (Canada) will attempt a kite-ski expedition from Narsaq in the South on the Atlantic Ocean to the JP Kocks Fjord in the North on the Artic Ocean and subsequently Qaanaaq in NW Greenland – a 3500 km journey with no resupplies. The expedition will take place between May and July.
www.greenlandquest.com
Danish Greenland expedition
Jesper Melin Ganc-Peterson and his teammate, Erik Bruun Jørgensen, plan to spend four months on Greenland to cover appr. 3500 km during their expedition. The expedition starts in March. Their route goes from Kangerlussuaq, to Independence Fjord, to Cape Morris Jesup, to Qaanaaq.
www.nerthus-explore.com
www.thuletilthule.dk
Fuchs Foundation science teachers
In May Carl Alvey and Carolyn Bailey will be leading a team of four British teachers, Helena Nunan, Nicola Rowland, Danny Golding and Andy Stevenson, across Greenland as part of the Fuchs Foundation's second science expedition to the Polar Regions. The team will travel with three dog sleds following the Arctic Circle across Greenland from Angmagssalik to Kangerlussuaq.
www.fuchsfoundation.org
www.bullexpeditions.com
Channel Islands Greenland expedition
Two men from the Channel Islands, Simon Elmont and Steve Wright will attempt a Greenland East-West crossing from near Kulusuk to Sondre Stromfjord in the Spring of 2009.
www.greenland09.com
Finnish Greenland expedition
Timo Stenros and his team of 6 Finns plan to cross Greenland from East to west in Spring. The teammates are Kossila Kari, Kokko Jani, Parkkinen Teija, Suhonen Arto and Västinsalo “Rami” Raimo, They will start in the West at Kangerlussuaq and will finish near Isortoq in the East.
www.greenland2009.fi
Norwegian Girls Greenland expedition
Cecilie Skog (guide), Silje Padøy, Linn Katrine Yttervik, Bjørn Sekkesæter (Norway) and Ryan Waters (USA) will attempt a West to East crossing on the Arctic Circle route, starting end of April.
Cecilie Skog’s expedition website
Team Epic
Antony Jinman’s Greenland dispatches
Antony Jinman (UK), Bill Colson (UK), Aanneli Nesteng and Alekander Filibombombom Gamme (Norway), Dennis Steinemann (Switzerland) and Hans Horvath (Austria) are crossing Greenland from East to West
www.humanedgetech.com/expedition/jinman
Ice Cap Station Expedition
In May 2009 the Ice Cap Station Expedition team, Chloë Courtauld, Constant Tedder, their Inuit guide, Dines Mikaelsen and a dog team driver will retrace the 1930-31 footsteps of Chloe’s great-uncle, August Courtauld on Greenland; a 410 km journey.
www.icecapstation.com
Hvitserk (Norway)
Hviserk has a team of nine members on the Greenland Ice in May: Morten, Per, Johannes, Britt, Christian, Alf Johnny and Bernt Arne with expedition leaders Lars Mausethagen and Atle Trodal. They have started from Point 660.
www.hvitserk.no
Christian Eide’s Latitude team (Norway)
In May Christian Eide is leading Truls Notto, Gunnar Naes, Tor Olsen, Thomas Brauner, Jørn Gulbrandsen, Håkon Mithassel and Erik Magelssen on a horizontal crossing from West to East.
www.latitude.no
Sjur Mørdre’s team
Sjur Mørdre is crossing Greenland in May departing from Point 660 to the East. Team members are Bjørn Arne Evensen, John Helge Inderdal, Leif Arne Fardal, Eirik Tryti, Jon Olav Hjerpaasen, Sjur Mørdre, Eirik Hagen and Erik Nilsen.
www.exploring.no
Hugo Rolf Hansen (leader) and Bjørn Einar Bjartnes (Norway)
Hugo and Bjørn Einar will attempt a kite skiing crossing of the Greenland Icecap from the Narsaq in the South to Qaanaaq in the Northwest. They plan to start on 3 June.
www.kitegreenland2009.com
