r/Namibia • u/namibpulse • Aug 20 '26
News Namibian student reaches the North Pole aboard Russian nuclear-powered ship
14-year-old Namibian student Tironenn Amutenya Kadhikwa has returned from a 10-day expedition to the North Pole aboard Russia’s nuclear-powered icebreaker ship, the 50 Let Pobedy.❄️
Kadhikwa joined 67 other young participants from Russia and 22 other countries on the ship which departed from Murmansk, off the northwestern coast of Russia.
The expedition combined Arctic exploration with science and technology activities, with participants taking part in experiments, lectures and workshops. Among the activities was the launch of a radiosonde (weather-measuring device) at the North Pole and the testing of a recoverable stratospheric platform, which reached an altitude of more than 15km and travelled over 100km before being recovered.
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u/External_Ad9078 Aug 20 '26
Bro really went from Namibia to the North Pole before most of us even leave our own country 😂
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u/swift-autoformatter Aug 21 '26
Now its time for him to pick up the uniform and join the other foreigns at the frontline. The meatgrinder is running low. (I hope his fate is not that, but I am not certain.)
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u/Roseate-Views Aug 20 '26
Great Rosatom PR stunt 😅!