About Nicolas Peissel
I was born on a farm where my parents spent the better part of 10 years building a sailboat to live out their dreams. I have been on boats my entire life actively sailing for about 25 years. I worked as a Shipwright for close to a decade which allowed me the opportunity to sail all sorts of boats in different locations around the world such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sweden, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Africa, Carribean and Americas. In 2009-2010 I bought a 28ft sloop fixed it up and sailed it over 15 000nm completing a circumnavigation of the North Atlantic (Montreal-New York-Bermuda-Azores-Portugal-Canaries-Cape Verdes-Caribbean-Montreal). In 2011 I completed my third Trnas-Atlantic sailing Belzebub from Scotland-Iceland-Greenland-Newfoundland.
I am a motivated, honest and hardworking individual who plans his trips methodically and always completes what he has started. I like challenges and feel that I am resourceful and adapt very well to new situations and difficult circumstances. I am looking forward to exploring a new route through the Arctic while highlighting the social, environmental and political change taking place in this remote part of the world.
Visit the Royal Canadian Geographical Society to learn about the 2012 Passage Through Ice expedition.
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Nicolas Peissel is part of a Royal Canadian Geographical Society-supported expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. Click here to read more about the Passage Through Ice journey and read more posts about the expedition on CG Compass.
We were poised in Prince of Wales Strait on the East side of Banks Island when we received the email we had been waiting for:
Good afternoon,
It not recommended to go into M'Clure Strait, but there is a window open north of Banks. There is a lead developing ...
Nicolas Peissel is part of a Royal Canadian Geographical Society-supported expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. Click here to read more about the Passage Through Ice journey and read more posts about the expedition on CG Compass.
Fair winds took us from Greenland around the last remaining pack ice in Baffin Bay and into Canadian waters. We had not yet decided on a route since cloud cover over the Canadian Arctic cluttered up the satellite images.
To bide our time and get further information ...
The temperature dropped to two degrees Celsius and the light from the midnight sun brightened gradually as we reached the northernmost point of the expedition. The GPS showed that we were at 78 degrees North and just beyond the horizon was a wall of ice stopping us only 720 nautical miles from the North Pole.
From there we headed to Thule; Greenland’s northernmost settlement. The name, which originates in Greek mythology, means “the end of the world.”
The surrounding landscape was harsh. Small ...
How’s this for a wake-up call: Belzebub got stuck in the ice. We’re back on the water now, but that little incident at Eternity fiord reminded us what a really high stakes game of uncharted sailing we are undertaking.
We’d been celebrating a milestone moment for our expedition: the crossing of the Arctic Circle. This “bowl” at N 66 32' contains over six million square miles of ocean, ice and land and has fascinated and challenged explorers and scientists alike for centuries. We’re seeing more ...
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After weeks of what felt like endless expedition preparations, we set sail from the northern coast of Newfoundland into the cold waters of the Labrador sea, both of us tired men. We were thankfully met with gentle winds which let us complete some unfinished work, catch up on some much needed sleep and give Rana, our on board documentary filmmaker friend, time to strengthen his stomach and find his sea legs.
While the Labrador Sea provided us with great winds, cold foggy conditions made for damp, ...
Two years ago, Edvin Buregren and I hatched an expedition plan to sail into the Arctic to explore the north of Canada and its secrets. The idea quickly grew with our research into the area, as we studied ice charts and satelitte images we noticed new routes were emerging into and through the Arctic.
Our expedition soon became linked to a climate change message in an attempt to sail from Atlantic to Pacific via a new route that we think will clear of ice this year due to polar ice cap depletion. ...
