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...have been undertaken alone. These include having climbed four of the highest mountains in the world: Mont Blanc in France, Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Aconcagua in Argentina and Mount McKinley in the U.S. To train for his conquest of the North Pole, he made a 7,500-mile trek from Greenland to Alaska by dos sledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Journey to the Top of the World | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...remained for two days and was then airlifted back to Ellesmere Island. Following a one-week respite, he is scheduled to leave on yet another pioneering dog-sledge journey that will take him 1,660 miles on a north-south trek through the icy interior of Greenland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Journey to the Top of the World | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...start of Korean Air Lines Flight 902, which left Paris one afternoon last week on the polar route to Seoul with 110 passengers and crew members aboard. Under a veteran pilot, Captain Kim Chang Kyu, 46, the Boeing 707 followed a normal course over the North Sea and Greenland and headed toward Canada's Ellesmere Island on its 8,455-mile run. But then, about 3½ hours away from a refueling stop at Anchorage, Alaska, Captain Kim did something extraordinary: he made a 180° turn back toward Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: The Mystery of Flight 902 | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...present, two destinations are possible. Either the Central African Republic or Greenland could play host to Harvard's "Vagabond Basketeers" following commencement...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Classics Pass Century Mark; Hoopsters Notch 100th Victory | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

Progress Party in 1972. Its platform includes the dissolution of the Danish armed forces, the sale of Greenland to the U.S., biweekly elections, replacement of the country's cradle-to-grave welfare system with vending machines dispensing porridge-and, of course, abolition of taxation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Taxation on Trial | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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