Kolkata student reaches North Pole! 80th anniversary of Russian nuclear power begins
By Venkatachari JagannathanChennai, Aug. 21 -- Fifteen-year-old Aayush Goyal, a Class 11 student of St Xavier's Collegiate School in Kolkata, has touched the North Pole on a Russian icebreaker, said his Chartered Accountant father, Sushil Kumar Goyal.
"He reached the North Pole a couple of days back. He is on his way back to Murmansk, a Russian port city," Sushil Kumar Goyal told UNI from Kolkata.
"We are all proud that he is the first person from our family to have travelled in an icebreaker to the North Pole," Sushil Kumar Goyal added.
Aayush represents India on Rosatom's Arctic expedition aboard the 50 Let Pobedy nuclear icebreaker, said Rosatom.
Representatives of 21 countries took to the ice parading their national flags, many of them ...
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