| Gerd and Dorothy Wengler |
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Gerd has written a very thorough trip report on their 2005 trip, which you can read here. The summer of 2009 saw them on another arctic single engine adventure. They joined the very small group of pilots who have landed their private aircraft at Canadian Forces Station Alert, the most northerly airport in North America. Alert is a restricted military site, so just getting permission to go there takes a lot of work. And then there's the flight to the top of Ellesmere Island, some 4000 kilometers north of their home near Toronto, Ontario . There is only one small civilian community on Ellesmere - Grise Fiord, about 700 kilometers south of Alert. And there's a weather and science station about halfway up at Eureka. Making that trip is not something for the faint of heart.
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| Last Updated on Saturday, 01 September 2012 19:55 |