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Not your average family vacation
08:29 a.m. EDT May 30, 2003
Paul Landry has guided 2 South Pole and 1 North Pole trips back to back this past year. His wife, Matty, has also guided in the Arctic/Antarctic, both on a North and South Pole expedition. The couple decided they needed a break, so it was off with their two kids, Sarah and Eric for a Greenland crossing. This is not your everyday family vacation.
Right now they are on the ice and sending back daily dispatches with pictures and videos of their family trip with Contact 2.0 expedition software. To get across Greenland, which boasts the world’s second largest icecap, they are using one of the oldest and one of the newest forms of Arctic transportation - dogsleds and kites.
Harnesses are used to hook into specially made kites and off they go across the ice with the power of the wind making them fly across on skis. In their videos you can see Dad doing a fly-by near the tents, Dad crashing his kite into the tents, and the sled dogs in hot pursuit of kiters.
This is truly a magical trip. They are having so much fun just being together out there, taking turns running the dogs and kiting. No, “who gets the front seat,” arguments in this family.
Sarah’s teachers let her take exams early just to go on this trip. She flew up to meet the fam just days before setting out on the ice. In the early dispatches there’s video of her on the phone talking to her Dad and her brother, Eric, about preparations. Eric even brought the video camera to the airport and surprised sis with it.
Join them on their fairytale-like journey over the Greenland icecap.
Image courtesy of NorthWinds Arctic Adventures
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