Hungarian sailed over the Northwest Passage for the first time

Hungarians sailed over the Northwest Passage for the first time: Zoltan Balaton and his family made the nearly 4000km-long journey on his 11m sailboat. The Northwest Passage is a sea route which connects the waters of the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean along the northern coast of Canada, szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu said.

The family from Budapest started with two children, the 19-year-old Csenge and the 6-year-old Kristof from Sisimiut, a town on the west coast of Greenland on July 12 and arrived in Tuktoyaktuk, which belongs to the northwest territories of Canada, after two months in September 5 – MTI was informed.

With this performance, they are the first Hungarians who sailed over the Northwest Passage, which is open due to the continuous ice only for a short period of the year, but sailing is extremely difficult and dangerous even this time too.

According to the communication received by MTI, a total of 150 ships could sail over the passage so far.

The four-member family’s youngest member celebrated his 6^th birthday in the passage. “We are over a grueling expedition” – Zoltan Balaton said. “In several cases, luck, gracious weather and the help of unselfish people saved the success of the crossing”.

Source: http://www.szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu