Skinnarmo och Nordostpassagen: I Adolf Erik Nordenskiölds spår by Ola Skinnarmo & Johan Tell [Text in Swedish], ISBN 9789171261908


Inscribed and signed by Ola Skinnarmo in Swedish to the top right hand corner of the half-title page - the page where the unopened DVD is affixed; published in Sweden 2010 by Bokförlaget Max Ström, 240pp. + end paper maps & many illustrations in colour and black & white, text generally in decent order albeit with a hint of browning to page edges, spine very slightly cocked & boards just a tad bowed, bumping & rubbing to board corners at the bottom, slight bumping & rubbing to the top of both boards, to the bottom of the rear board, to the sides of both & to the top & bottom of the spine, front board has one noticeable bump/indentation to the base + one indentation slightly further up, slight bumping to spine edge on the front, rear board has a few bumps, the dust jacket has slight internal browning, is rubbed & creased at top & bottom with very slight loss to the rear top left hand corner, both front & rear have many marks, scratches & indentations.

To quote from the enclosed bookmark from East Capital: 'In June 2009, Ola Skinnarmo and his team left Stockholm on "Explorer of Sweden", and sailed more than 6,000 nautical miles via Svalbard, Murmansk and along the coast of Siberia, before reaching the Bering Strait in mid-September. The expedition was a Swedish-Russian cooperation to gain further knowledge on Russia and its people and culture, but also to investigate the rapid environmental changes in the Arctic region by documenting the melting ice cap and the decreasing ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean.'



Ola Helmer Skinnarmo, born May 31, 1972 is a Swedish adventurer. He was the first Swede to reach the South Pole (solo, but not
unsupported) in December 1998. In 2000, Skinnarmo set off on an expedition to the North Pole together with the adventurer Göran Kropp. Kropp had to stop the expedition due to frostbite when he held a gun in his hand for a long time during a polar bear attack. Skinnarmo reached the Pole alone and was also the first Swede to do so. In 2001, Skinnarmo together with several others went to Greenland with a sailboat to ski across Greenland together with Torkel Ideström in the same way as Fridtjof Nansen did in 1888. However, the expedition had to be interrupted very close to the final destination after Ideström fell into a crevasse in the glacier and was left hanging. In 2002, Skinnarmo kayaked with two friends around Svalbard in the footsteps of Salomon August Andrée. In 2003, he and several others sailed from the southern tip of South America down to Elephant Island and later on to South Georgia to ski across the island just as Ernest Henry Shackleton did in 1916.



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