Ngelixa imboniselo yezokhenketho yehlabathi ifumana ukwehla, enye indawo ekusingwa kuyo ayizange ixakeke kakhulu - iNorth Pole.
URick Sweitzer, umseki weThe Northwest wathi: “Ngonyaka wekhulu kulo nyaka wokufunyanwa kukaRobert F. Peary kwiNorth Pole, kudityaniswa noloyiko lokuba ukufudumala kwehlabathi kusenokutshintsha ngokukhawuleza imimandla yeArctic ngonaphakade, ngunyaka oxakeke kakhulu kuthi. I-Passage PolarExplorers efikelele kwi-Pole ngokwakhe ngaphezulu kwezihlandlo ezilishumi elinambini.
U-Sweitzer wongeze wathi: “Kodwa ngeli xesha iluhambo olubiza imali eninzi, ngokuqinisekileyo ayilohambo olutofotofo. Abathathi-nxaxheba bajamelene nokungaphumeleli okufanayo okwenza amaqhawe kaPeary kunye nomkhonzi wakhe wase-Afrika-waseMelika, uMatthew Henson. Kukwakho umdla omkhulu kuHenson nakwizinto aziphumezileyo kulo nyaka – ngexesha lakhe, impumelelo yakhe ibimangalisa njengekaBarack Obama.”
Inkampani yaseSweitzer's Chicago-based adventure travel, PolarExplorers/Northwest Passage ikhokela uhambo olupheleleyo ukusuka kwiWard Hunt Island kwi Ellesmere Island ukuya kwipali eshiya ngoMatshi 2, 2009. Isuka kwindawo yokuqala kufutshane nalapho uPeary wayemka khona, abahambi abadumileyo. , Stuart Smith, waseWaco Texas kunye noMax Chaya waseBeirut, eLebhanon, baya kukhokelwa nguLonnie Dupree wePolarExplorer, i-arctic legend ngokwakhe.
Inkampani yaseChicago ithi ibonelela ngeehambo ezahlukeneyo kulo nyaka, kodwa yongeza ukuba uhambo lweentsuku ezingama-60 olungaphaya kweemayile ezingama-420 ze-nautical kumhlaba we-arctic “lolona hambo lunzima nolumangalisayo kuhambo lwePolarExplorers kweli xesha lonyaka.”
Ngokungqinelana nePolarExplorers/Northwest Passage, iSweitzer iya kuba ikhokela amalungu angama-20 oMbutho wabaMongameli abancinci, iqela labaphathi kumashishini kulo lonke ilizwe. “Aba bantu bamele ezinye zezona zibalaseleyo kwaye ziqaqambile kwisizukulwana esilandelayo sokhokelo lweshishini. Uninzi lwabo kudala lulindele olu hambo – kwaye, xa sitheth’ inyani, xa sijonga imicelimngeni ezayo, ukuzithemba nobuchule ababufumanayo kolu hambo lumangalisayo lunokubanceda kwixesha elizayo,” utshilo uSweitzer.
Ngaba uhambo ngokutyibiliza ekhephini kunye nezinja yindleko efanelekileyo kunyaka wokudodobala koqoqosho? Sweitzer wathi: “Njengoko ndingqina ngokobuqu, ukuya eNorth Pole kuyakutshintsha. Ukuyenza ibe phezulu kwihlabathi ngemizamo yakho kukunceda ukuba ukholelwe ukuba nantoni na inokwenzeka ngocwangciso, umbutho, kunye nokuzimisela komntu. Iqaqambisa uhlobo olulodwa lokumamela kuyo yonke into ekungqongileyo – kwaye ilungile kwiinkokeli zoshishino njengoko injalo kubantu abadumileyo.”
U-Sweitzer, uDupre, kunye no-Aggens bathi baya kubonelela nge-audio yemihla ngemihla kunye nemifanekiso evela kuzo zonke iihambo ze-PolarExplorers eziza kuthunyelwa kwiwebhusayithi ye-PolarExplorers kwi-http://polarexplorers.com.
