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Extreme Arctic Adventure: Sailing to Greenland and The North West Passage

Last summer my girlfriend and I went on an extreme Arctic Adventure!  We were asked to take part in a sailing expedition to Greenland and across the Arctic to Alaska.  This is a lonely world of cold, wind, ice bergs and polar bears! And we were going to sail through it on a 13m aluminium sailing boat…  Awesome! Table of Contents Our Team for the Extreme Arctic Adventure The Yacht for our Arctic Adventure The shopping list Some history Departure:  22nd July Baltimore, USA to Halifax, Canada Halifax to Greenland Greenland to Pond Inlet The Greenlandic town of Ilulissat Our first Canadian Inuit Community Pond Inlet to Gjoa Haven Look there a Polar Bear! South Here we saw more polar bears too. Gjoa Haven to Tuktoyaktuk to Nome Our first shower in 5 weeks! Nome to Kodiak Kodiak and the end of our Arctic Adventure! Our Team for the Extreme Arctic Adventure Captain Joe (60) was from Alaska.  Shanan (22) from New Mexico, Jeremie (26) from Montreal, Gracie (26) Minneapolis, USA, and m...