Four men broke the record on Sunday for kite skiing across Greenland, taking nearly ten days to complete the 380-mile east-west route, .
Tom Avery, Andrew Gerber, Patrick Woodhead, and George Wells, all age 39, began on May 7 from Isortoq in East Greenland and聽finished聽at Kangerlussuaq in the west. They man-hauled for a few days and kited the rest of the way.
鈥淲e鈥檙e shattered, sore, dehydrated, wind-burnt, frost-nipped, and in need of knee replacement surgery on our return home, but at this precise moment we couldn鈥檛 care less,鈥 Tom Avery told ExplorersWeb.
The previous record was a 500-mile trip in a Z-shaped route, which took nearly 18 days.