i decided to make a trip around the world. not through. all terrain vehicles through severe. now third. traveling. public attention to the problems. is it working here's the head. of the third transacted stage of the travel is the most difficult one the international group will have to cover a distance and several thousand kilometers through. the expedition starts in russia and will finish in canada five months later. the explorers are using the vehicles they designed and assembled themselves they also decided to give up the g.p.s. and will test the russian. they will conduct scientific research on the climate and

try to gather more data habitats of polar bears. thank you very much for being with us. tell us a few things about this polar and. back in two thousand. and one to current objectives. well originally the ideal for the polar expedition was born towards the end of the last century was. our goal was to me could vehicles suitable for arctic conditions that it would allow us to travel along the age of three parts of the world thus making

a circle around the arctic ocean. and we decided to use ultra low pressure timers. as you can see on the screen. it is a very interesting invention. the tires look like slick there is no tread pattern as you can see that all the chains of the time is no those are not chains those are belts that keep the tire from going off the rim which you see when pressure is high the tire can go off the rim but when there is practically no pressure perhaps just ten percent or even less it can come off during a turn that is the only purpose of those belts. pressure makes the tires elastic which gives the car's a very good traction can this expedition be regarded as a second never a geisha well bill does an expedition have to be closer to the equator to be considered around the world trip technically an expedition has to cross the equator

at least twice to be a circle navigation expedition that is limited to one of the hemispheres the northern one or the southern one is not a circle navigation so we're stretching it a bit when we say our expedition is a circle navigation strictly speaking it's a circular polar expedition. they expect crew has two canadian members yourself you're an ethnic russian but a canadian citizen and then there is another canadian also with a russian name so all you guys russian or canadian and held it is joining this expedition. well we're both russians and i just live in canada and to how we joined the expedition i can only speak for myself. i found out about the expedition in two thousand and four i saw it on the internet. i had been dreaming about traveling to the north pole since nine hundred ninety four . told me about his trips in the arctic. so

when i found out about the project i first tried to join this position in two thousand. but by that time the roster was fool so i didn't make it but. told me that i was welcome to take part in future projects. scientific expedition. tourism. well. i certainly can't say it's a fool fledged scientific expedition. because none of us are scientists with them of course we're all well educated people but we're not researchers. yet we do our best to keep in contact with scientists. and we're in gauged

in certain scientific programs like you. mean only data and samples there is but if you intend to make a trust section of the ulti kosha by collecting ice and snow samples and making measurements why would you need to do that. because it's very interesting for scientific purposes. of course but we are not presumptious. the scientists to do something. we take up the tasks that we are able to handle on to the extreme conditions off travelling across trysting ice flows we should we presented these scientists with a unique opportunity to collect career specimens and they were very interested in work within modern metal scientists zoologists and other.

well you going to observe any animals. the flora and fauna. well i think we will observe the ones we encounter so you will not try to seek them out you know we will what will study animals. you may be called a veteran industry and i read that you are the only person in the world has reached the north pole four times on ski and this is to. the point of that is true but it's a bit o. dated information. you see about five years ago i was the only one in the world. but there is an international independent. it's participants have repeated that record anyway the point is you've been doing it for quite a time back in one thousand nine hundred two you've been dissipated in an expedition to the bitter on the plateau that right that's how this story started cutting it in your opinion has the changed much since you first went there can you

confirm that the ice is really melting and the things have become was and the all it is doing it. i wouldn't say that the arctic is dying. it's changing and there are a few climate changes but i'm not among those who dramatize the situation. we need to study the situation instead of pointing fingers as some do. some say it's all because of human activities i'm sure well human activities do you have some effect but i would say that ninety nine percent of the change has been caused by other circumstances. the earth is a living organism in all changes in nature follows certain laws and we need to study those laws. so these are just regular fluctuations of course and it's

going to go back to normal it's not like it goes normal for good i can give you many examples confirming that those changes have already taken place many times. they find cohen swallow bar and you know we know that coal can only be formed in places with forests this proves that many years ago everything was quite different centuries after the exploration of the art take began expeditions to the north have not lost their thrill these days frozen x. and says attract not only scientists but tourists as well spotlights to me that i have more. in the will i want to survive the loneliness and the celestion is. the theme of arctic circle grips is through how i ended this summit and expose how a young man's personality transforms when he's cut off from civilization in an optic station the director was inspired by a russian pool researcher you are good. one hundred years ago he traveled the

arctic so they in the region islands rivers and glace years have been named after him by news of the arctic well loved by the russian people and revered by the government busy building in the center of moscow always called the house of the poor researchers in one thousand thirty six it was built exclusively for the arctic explorers so they could take a risk here in between their expeditions now days more and more people want that cooler experience and tourism is on the up going to the top of the world is no longer a matter of survival the lower temperatures are still a challenge for those wishing to join the peace quiet in the beauty of the frozen with but this doesn't come cheap a true cost ten thousand dollars many of those involved think it is worth every penny to quench their thirst and regain church and the spread of thing with more traditional tumorous in the firm selling trips to the north who haven't seen

a decline in the number of customers ready to tread in them for food stamps. again which in the military is saying that you are going to have the animals we should encounter. it's a clear thing that climate change has actually animals and you know what of course . well you know i haven't truly studied these problems thora lee but i think global warming if you like forces polar bears to leave their usual habitats. i've read reports on the internet saying they are hybrids now i mean between polar bears and grizzly bears. really and they can have gobs and they have doubled polar bears now three serious we have pictures i uploaded

a couple of such pictures to my website so they've got spots like as a nation not exactly they just have big brown spots on their coats amazing some people saw them in chicago or know alaska alaska well that's unbelievable. well you know things are changing because the environment is changing so. just a way that we're talking to the head of the polling expedition and canadian traveler. spotlight will be back shortly right after the break we'll continue this in less than a minute. every

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explanation of legume of the chill cough and canadian traveler said he. will say they are going to use the globe system in this expedition which is the russian version of g.p.s. g.p.s. and i think this is going to be its first test on those objects stream conditions with what. can you tell us what equipment are you going to use for navigation to get them these places yell blood in there what kind of equipment are we going to use let me answer this question as surrogate is a newcomer to our team and that's why he's referring this question to me but we've always used the global positioning system for navigation purposes. it has always worked fine this is tracks our route automatically on our on board computer and the information is transmitted to via the same system to any user to our websites and so on but this year we have an opportunity to carry out the first task

on ast system in highland city it's previously the russian system did not have enough satellites to cover again tire glue but know that this group or whatever it's called satellites his crew its business leader of satellites i think they're still the satellites by no. yes the satellite feed here's occur we will try using a steer but it doesn't mean that we have given up g.p.s. . but yes of course you know some people were very anxious what will happen if something goes wrong there is no need to warry because what we're doing is just testing the system and no one should worry if it works or not we are pursuing a very important and a very difficult task we are testing how the new system functions and highlighted to you that's it. being

a new comer do you think this is going to be an unassisted expedition or will you be in constant contact with the mainland receiving food from helicopters enjoying g.p.s. and other communications be mostly. tonal mous it means just going on on your own and whether you reach your destination or does well it won't be exactly the case i think. yes and any a tone of most expeditious uses communications in our case we will have refusing stops on the way we are also making fuel reserves at the pole as well as sending clothes that will mean there will be complete autonomy we don't have such a goal. we're not interested in autonomy talk that. way. you want. new technology it deprives us of something important that there's no more

of that psychological tension that kept you gripped from the first to the last day of an expedition as your equipment and food did not differ much from that used by the first explorers. did you miss that feeling don't you it appears that today you like some of that risk and adrenaline don't you. i cannot talk about taking risks in terms of our goals. we try not to use the word extreme if possible. but it's true that it used to be more romantic before the option was we mean. well but you were. only because of globe as so g.p.s. yes really. absolutely when we made our first polar expeditions were doing is if we had been living in the eighteenth century they must have had a compass then yes we need to have a compass but you know the chinese had invented the compass long before we reached

the pole but how captivating into was to be looking at the sky thinking whether in the sun will appear or not if yes we had to stop and measure the height of the sun the its upper and lower brink and then we had to spend an hour making necessary calculations in a frozen tent as there were no computers then and a calculator was freezing any had to warm it up above the gasoline still with plastic dropping into your plate making the calculations and now you only have to press a button to get your exact location is that was the whole it's not worse it's safe for it but it's no longer romantic because we expect a lot from new technology and we don't even give a thought to what we would be doing if not for those smart devices.

but we can't reject technology can we just know we current is just the things that used to be more romantic in the past. as a newcomer it is a romantic well yes pretty much so well there are a lot of such things like you're wearing modern clothes a new country. social care and of course we can't it is so romantic. as the frozen limbs then gets ations. oh yes it's her mantic and we've been through it. what about your team even though your expedition is not autonomous didn't check your candidates for psychological compatibility do you have some tests for them or something. like. that the q. well we don't have tests any longer but when we were younger and went on the physically harder expeditions we had doctors and psychologists working with us the

same people who prepared the consonance for long flights. so we're like. absolutely the media's go through centrifuge tests and a minimum temperature test psychological training as well when did is the psychological training really important. it is important you know for example sorry for interrupting but it always seemed to me that psychological compatibility is more important when you're going on vacation to the canary islands right because if a person misbehaves there you can ruin your vacation but in extreme conditions people forced to act as a team it seems to me that when they're working hard and fighting for survival psychological factors are no longer important fortunately it's not always the case you still may have psychological issues yes a person without a bad bone will think first about him so the instinct of self-preservation

overcomes in such a situation. and they realise that they can only survive as a team and that they will never survive on their own. unfortunately they don't it's a big problem many cannot act as part of a team because they do not realise that if you go on an expedition all by your so yourself. instinct helps you but when you're part of a team you're to behave in an absolutely different way there is one person who's in charge and he makes all the decisions and you are to a be otherwise you'll be in trouble for that as far as the north pole you're going to see bottom a time capsule with a u.s.b. drive carrying information for future generations with what kind of information does it carry and. what you're going to say to the future generations.

neither an enormous or again know what will be on the u.s.b. drive you see we provide an opportunity to those who are interested in it. so i can add something to that you're welcome. there is a website. are you where people write what they want to be on that u.s.b. drive. spotlight program on it but yes you can what four months is. as for the form of presenting the information it can be absolutely anything it can be a video store in which we take all of it transform it into a digital format and put it inside the container what we're interested in is that there won't be any political slogans but something from ordinary people some people may write something funny i there is me write something serious some people just like the idea of writing to people live never seen i think i would be interested in

reading such things if i were some three hundred years later. i'm going to just drop it into the water and want to sink this time and how are you going to fish it out you know we were asked this question before in my answer was it's not our problem if the future generations are interested in it i think they will figure out a way how to get it to the surface. right now. we'll find a way if they're at the same technological level as we are i mean are you going to install a beacon and there is a beacon but i was against it i think we should not provide assistance in what may not be even a problem in the future if they're interested they will find it but if they're not interested it won't be of any use even if they can scenery comes up to the surface on its own it's going to hit the part of the stove is it true that your route may later be used as a route for extreme take a tour is an offshoot of would a ship extend my. duties and. you know it's

a very difficult because that's what tourism i wouldn't call such trips tourism atoll. tourism is when a person is interested in a region and goes there to look around and take a few pictures. in this way he said he sighs he's curiosity but what we're doing is more serious. we're gathering information about what we see do there to present it to those who do not have the opportunity to go there because if you see it but you know almost everyone is eager to go traveling because we're all born to be travelers but we don't pay attention to it but when a man is born it is the beginning of his long journey in this world with your i'm sorry we're wandering off the subject into a philosophical issues a little bit here. that's

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