Ponant Explorations has announced it is honored to support an expedition retracing the steps of the little-known 1985 journey to the Geographic North Pole, led by Sir Edmund Hillary and Neil Armstrong. Aboard Le Commandant Charcot, the world’s only luxury icebreaker, descendants and team members of the original mission have returned to the top of the world—exactly 40 years later.
In the summer of 1985, a quietly assembled group of adventurers—led by expedition leader Mike Dunn and including Hillary, Armstrong, Steve Fossett and Patrick Morrow—traveled to the North Pole. The expedition remained out of the public eye by design, at Armstrong’s request. Today, the story is finally being told.
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