Dog sledding

Day 1 — HELSINKI, FINLANDYour adventure begins with an overnight stay in Helsinki, the capital of Finland.Day 2 — EMBARKATION IN MURMANSKFrom Helsinki, a charter flight takes you to Murmansk, Russia, where you will board your vessel for the journey to the North Pole and get acquainted with the 50 Years of Victory, the longest and most powerful icebreaker in ...

This destination is obviously not known as a diving destination, and yet Russia — more precisely the White Sea, northeast of St Petersburg — will delight the most adventurous divers. The journey itself is already an adventure: via St Petersburg or Moscow, or even Kuusamo, by plane or by train, access is long and difficult. This sea is an extension of the Arctic Ocean; summer is very short, ...

“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 ...