The World - News from June 2, 1988

A Soviet-Canadian ski team completed a grueling three-month trek over the North Pole, arriving on Ward Hunt Island near Cape Columbia on Ellesmere Island, the northern edge of Canada. The nine Soviets and four Canadians, who announced their achievement by shortwave radio, became the first explorers to make the estimated 1,075-mile polar 1668444019leadership of Moscow mathematician Dmitri Shparo and Canadian mechanical engineer Richard Weber, set out March 3 from Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, the northernmost point in the Soviet Union.