North Pole – Smoking a pipe and looking out over the vast, icy Arctic, captain Dmitry Lobusov sounds his ship’s horn to signal to passengers they are near their destination: the North Pole.
The Arctic Ocean is too deep to drop anchor, but a thick ice embankment offers a dock for Lobusov’s giant vessel — one among Russia’s growing fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers.
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