“A place where everything converges, where imagination meets reality, the North Pole is one of the Earth's axes of rotation. Here, every hour meets, every direction points south… it is a legendary point that is utterly beyond us!”, wrote Alain Hubert in his logbook on 16 May 1994, after reaching the top of the world for the first time with a friend, Didier Goetghebuer.
Picture yourself following in the footsteps of these famous explorers, standing at the top of the world, glass of champagne in hand – and everywhere you look lies south. That is the essence of this 14-day cruise: an ultimate Arctic adventure aboard the 50 Years of Victory, the world's most powerful nuclear icebreaker. Break through ice several years old in the Arctic Ocean, take to the skies by helicopter in search of walruses, seals, whales and polar bears, or, weather permitting, take a balloon ride at 90° North.