Fyodor Konyukhov and Igor Potapkin were the first in the world to reach the North Pole on a paramotor The flight of Fyodor Konyukhov and Igor Potapkin to the North Pole was successful, reports TASS. They were the first in the world to reach the pole on a paramotor, taking off the previous day on a motorized paraglider (paramotor) from an ice floe in the Northern Arctic Ocean. They spent more than ten hours in the air, covering nine hundred kilometers. Konyukhov and Potapkin were brought to the starting point by the nuclear icebreaker “50 Years of Victory,” which left Murmansk on July 4. To take off, they found a suitable ice floe in the area of the northernmost point of the Earth, Franz Josef Land. From there, the travelers launched the paramotor and flew to the pole. As reported by “Russian World,” it is planned that the icebreaker will reach the top of the planet in two days. Upon arrival at the North Pole, the crew will take Igor Potapkin and the paramotor on board, while Fyodor Konyukhov will spend three weeks waiting for the icebreaker on which he can return. He will set up a drifting polar station in the Northern Arctic Ocean, conducting research on the seismic activity of the ocean floor. According to the traveler, he will continue to study the issue of microplastics in the ocean.