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One of the Jeeps during a test drive in Siberia, towing outrigger pontoons that were to be a safety precaution for the planned Bering Strait ice crossing.

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Adventurers nix plan to drive across Bering Strait

Published: May 4th, 2010 11:43 AM
Last Modified: May 4th, 2010 12:48 PM

Bad weather and Russian bureaucracy have put the brakes on adventurers' plan to drive two specially modified Jeeps across Bering Strait as part of a Paris-to-New-York trek, reports the Toledo (Ohio) Blade.

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"After 1.5 months of futile waiting I decided the day before that further waiting doesn't make sense any longer," wrote Matthias Jeschke, the 39-year-old father of two who heads Extreme Events, the adventure group based in Limburg, Germany. "Due to the heavy storms it is not possible for the team of the Russian authorities to arrive in Uelen, or rather to leave Uelen in a decent time frame. While we were waiting there for 1.5 months, only one single helicopter was able to fly to Uelen."