Gilles Elkaim has completed his 4-year expedition across the Russian Arctic.
Having left from Nord Cape in Norway on May 30, 2000, the French explorer Gilles Elkaim arrived to the Bering Strait on April 4, 2004, winning a crazy bet to connect the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans by a long solitary journey across the Eurasian continent, along the coast of the icy Arctic Ocean : 12 000 kilometers in the extreme cold and far away from all civilization, on foot, in kayak, on skis, and on a deer-driven and dog-driven sledge. This was the first expedition of this kind in the history of polar exploration implemented with the support of the European Space Agency.