Across 20 glaciers in 10 years: Ice Legacy Project & Apine Watches

Polar explorers Borge Ousland and Vincent Colliard start their Ice Legacy project by crossing the Main Spitsbergen Glacier in the Svalbard Archipelago.

Borge Ousland and Vincent Colliard will start their epic journey - which will bring them to cross the 20 largest glaciers in the world over the next ten years  - by crossing the Main Spitsbergen Glacier in the Svalbard Archipelago in Norway beginning of August 2014, the ice legacy project aims to raise public awareness about the importance for mankind of preserving the glaciers and the ancestral ice, and to collect data for the scientific community.

By supporting the IceLegacy project by Borge Ousland, the only man to have crossed the North and South poles alone, and Vincent Colliard, young adventurer and Borge Ousland's partner, Alpina Watches wants promote the protection of the glaciers, an environmental and climate issue that is dire yet little known, yet of enormous importance for the future of our planet.

Borge and Vincent will also test their Alpiner 4 watches in extreme and magnetic field conditions during the next glaciers.

This will give Alpina information for further technical development of the model.

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