Closer to 02.00 at night the wind subsides to 9 m / s. We decide to turn off the tent and move at night. At 08.00 we stop for breakfast on the shore of Laptev. The coast is named after its discoverer, Russian polar explorer, leader of the Great Northern Expedition of 1739-1743. Khariton Prokofievich Laptev. Before the Laptev expedition, no one in Russia knew about the existence of Taimyr Peninsula. Khariton Prokofievich began to serve in the navy as a midshipman and after a short time he was given the task of passing the sea from Lena to Yenisei and describing unknown shores. The Maritime Board appointed him commander of the ship “Yakutsk”. Before Lena, travelers traveled by horse, then by sleigh and only then they were transferred to the ship.

Continue the movement until you can not. Since last night, without need, we have not left the tent: the strongest gusts of wind have been recorded in the Taimyr for the last five years. According to meteorologists, in some areas they reach 30 meters per second. On the 12-point Beaufort scale, this element is rated at 11 points and is called “severe storm”.

Back in the way. The gusty wind complicates the movement. In addition, at different distances from the shore drifting ice. We pass 170 km along fast ice – a kind of still ice in the seas, oceans and their bays along the coast. The line of ice fast ice is uneven, sometimes you can go far from the shore, and somewhere very close waves surge, heavy ice floes rub against each other, small hummocks are piling up. Broken ice slabs, creeping over each other, form bizarre figures.

We drove from Antipayuta 60 km and were forced to stop because of zero visibility. Dense snow does not allow you to continue driving. We set up a tent. Apparently, you have to move at night. Continue to delight your messages with words of support.

While the team does not get in touch. It is known that they left early in the morning in the direction of the village of Gyda. It is planned to reach Sopochnaya Kargi by the evening. The weather is deteriorating: the wind has increased to 10 m / s, and the arrow of the thermometer is approaching -31. We are waiting for news. In the meantime, we offer to see the plot. Before the start of the expedition, the team of the Northern Assault team met with representatives of local and federal media.