It couldn't have happened to a
more deserving bunch.
We row into Cambridge Bay, Nunavut this afternoon – August 28th, 2013
to officially conclude the Mainstream Last First expedition. The snow
squalls that dogged us earlier in the day have lifted and blue sky and
sun greet us as we end our journey. It feels like a fitting end.
Over the past 54 days we traversed more than 1500-kms of the
Northwest Passage from Inuvik, NWT to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut and come
away humbled and awed by the experience. We had hoped to make it to Pond
Inlet, Nunavut by early September but this has proven impossible.
Severe weather conditions hindered our early progress and now ice chokes
the passage ahead.
Our ice router Victor has been very clear in what lies ahead. He
writes, “Just to give you the danger of ice situation at the eastern
Arctic, Eef Willems of “Tooluka” (NED) pulled out of the game and
returning to Greenland. At many Eastern places of NWP locals have not
seen this type ice conditions. Residents of Resolute say 20 years have
not seen anything like. Its, ice, ice and more ice. Larsen, Peel,
Bellot, Regent and Barrow Strait are all choked. That is the only route
to East. Already West Lancaster received -2C temperature expecting -7C
on Tuesday with the snow.”
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