Four friends and explorers have set a common goal: to reach the northernmost scientific station in the world. The expedition, named “White Ghosts, on the trail of Svalbard’s ghosts,” will take place in extreme conditions.
The team consists of Moufid Taleb, a professional expedition guide from Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Ludovic Ibba, an archaeologist and explorer who has led expeditions from the Amazon to the Yukon, Jordan Buatois, a mountain adventurer, and Benjamin Peroni, an experienced traveler in all kinds of adventures.
Their goal is to reach Ny-Ålesund, the northernmost scientific station in the world, located on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Along the 400-kilometer route, the adventurers will pass through a ghost town abandoned since the Soviet era, and then an isolated cabin marked by the tragic disappearance of seventeen people in 1873. Glaciers, ice floes, and vast silent expanses will punctuate the journey. And polar bears, other white ghosts of the present, whose presence requires constant vigilance.
The quartet will depart with approximately 350 kg of equipment and supplies, distributed in pulkas, which are special sleds pulled on skis. The journey will pass through Narvik and Tromsø, in Norway, before reaching Svalbard. Faced with meteorological depressions, storms, and extreme cold, there is no question of letting oneself be physically overwhelmed.
The preparation phase concluded in Lapland in recent days. Equipment tests, bivouacs, and encounters with the local fauna (owls, ptarmigans, hares, and northern lights) have marked the past few weeks. The group’s flagship training: pulling tires to simulate the sensations of the pulka on ice. The entire adventure will be filmed, and a documentary will be released once it is completed.
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