Volunteers of the Clean Arctic public environmental project will clean up scrap metal at Cape Chelyuskin, which is the northernmost and most hard-to-reach point in Eurasia.
It is estimated that at a waste dump in the area there are 25,000 - 40,000 old metal barrels. The barrels themselves are planned to be rolled manually or transported using an ATV. The collected waste will be delivered by helicopter to the Mikhail Somov scientific expedition vessel, which will be chartered back.
Eco-volunteers have been preparing for the unique and most difficult expedition in the history of the project for almost a year. A group of ten people will go to Cape Chelyuskin in early August.
The first expedition will last almost two months, and all this time the volunteers will live in difficult conditions, tass.ru reports.
Alex Shishlo, Chief Editor of the European Bureau, Rough&Polished
