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Gobi Desert

Call of the wild: Adventurers team up to brave subzero temperatures and 100km winds as they ski across Greenland in just ONE month!

The explorers will face difficult weather conditions including temperatures of below minus 25 degrees Celsius and winds exceeding 100 km/h. Łukasz Supergan/Facebook

Experienced explorers Mateusz Waligóra and Łukasz Supergan will be walking the 600km distance from the west to the east of the world’s largest island on skis, with a plan to complete the arduous journey in just one month.

Record breaker: Solo adventurer becomes first man in history to cross Gobi desert on foot

Walking an average of 30km a day, Mateusz Waligóra took 58 days to cover the 1,850km trek in blistering 40 degrees temperatures which plummeted to an agonising -30 at night.

Adventurer makes epic 80-day trek across Gobi Desert

Before jetting off, adventure-junkie Mateusz Waligóra told TFN he was ‘scared and stressed’ and admitted he ‘might not come back’.

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