![]() ![]() ![]() The Walker prepares to leave from the nearby Guild outpost in Virgohamma. He may also observe Fogg, and admire his clear excitement (improving their relationship) or wonder if the look in his eyes is feverish (deteriorating their relationship). The group boards the Ice Walker, and Passepartout may admire the Walker or be horrified by it. Passepartout can either be shocked or stoic. On arrival in Smeerenburg, the pair meet Vitti Jokinen, an Artificer who informs them that he is preparing to travel to the North Pole aboard an invention called the Ice Walker. Fogg will drag him off and return back to their accommodation that night, stating, with a slight slur, that they will board the Ice Walker. The player may begin the unrequited romantic subplot between Passepartout and Fogg here if they choose to refer to travelling to the North Pole as 'the Alexandrian Solution', asking if that would make Passeparout General Hephaestion, and then quietly realising that Alexander and his general may have been more than friends, and wondering if the relationship between gentleman and valet could ever go in that direction. Fogg will allude to the idea that they could simply travel around the North Pole and back to Britain as a full 'circumnavigation'. Passepartout will begin to wonder why Fogg is heading north instead of east. It also plans to offer a six-day tour across southern Africa starting in Windhoek, Namibia, or Livingstone, Zambia, then touching down on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, Botswana’s Okavango Delta, and Victoria Falls on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border before returning.Passepartout and Fogg must make it to northern Scandanavia to trigger the scenario, riding the Pomor Hunting Balloon from Tromsø to Smeerenburg. The company aims to have a fleet of more than 100 airships by 2030, focusing on the ultra-luxury travel and air cargo segments in the beginning. ![]() If we can fix aviation we can fix everything.” “Airships can become a symbol, a messenger of humanity’s transition to sustainable activities on Earth. He said that airships were the most efficient and cleanest aerial vehicles “and they give us the freedom to access remote locations, wilderness, untouched places without a footprint”. “The North Pole expedition is aimed at the traveller who wants to experience the Arctic in a unique way, and at the same time contribute to the development of a new era of sustainable travel,” said Carl-Oscar Lawaczeck, OceanSky’s chief executive and founder. The Airlander has four combustion engines but aims to go electric in the future, which would reduce its carbon footprint to zero. It has a contract with Air Nostrum, a regional partner airline for Iberia, which plans to put 100-seat versions of the craft into service from 2026. The design means it burns very little fuel and can stay airborne for a long time - up to five days, according to HAV. There will also be a special sightseeing room with glass on the bottom. The chosen ship will boast eight en suite double cabins with panoramic windows, a restaurant, lounge and bar. OceanSky said it was in talks with a number of airship builders, including British company Hybrid Air Vehicles, maker of the Airlander 10, the world’s biggest aircraft. The company said it planned to take off from Longyearbyen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in a craft that has capacity for 16 passengers and a crew of eight including four pilots, a chef and the expedition leader, Robert Swan, the first person to walk to both poles. Services are expected to begin in 2024 or 2025. The tickets will cost from about £160,000 per two-bed cabin and the first buyers will be allocated shares in the company, Sweden-based OceanSky Cruises. Friday September 23 2022, 5.00pm, The TimesĪ Swedish company plans to revive the century-old tradition of luxury airship travel by launching a 36-hour round trip service to the North Pole from Norway. ![]()
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