Børge Ousland

Hi, this is Børge again. It’s the 19th of August and we are just leaving the port of Murmansk. We came here last night, and the pilot who came on board brought our boat safely to the pier. In the course of the night we were visited by custom agency officials, representatives of the border patrol, and – well, ten or fifteen people must have come on board the “Athene” to check out various things. Fortunately, all our papers were in order, and our passports have been stamped in and out.

Now we’re leaving Murmansk with wind in our sails, charting a course back to Norway, and we are really looking forward to arriving at the North Cape! We expect to arrive there around 6pm Tuesday evening.

All is well; everything went according to plan in Murmansk. And our compliments to the friendly Russians who received us.

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