BRAZIL: Brazilian navigator Tamara Klink says she encountered “very little” sea ice on her solo sail through the Northwest Passage — a rare feat that would have been impossible without an icebreaker ship three decades ago.
In September, the 28-year-old became the second woman and the first Latin American to complete the perilous Arctic journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, which has only become possible due to melting ice caused by climate change.
“I only found ice on nine percent of the way which is very little,” Klink tells AFP after returning from the 6,500-kilometer (4,000-mile) voyage between Greenland and Alaska.
