An interview with Dr. Mikhail Malakhov

Dr. Malakhov (center) and companions in Russian Mission at the end of their journey in 2012. (Courtesy Tim Troll)The main guest for this show is one of the world’s greatest polar explorers. Dr. Mikhail Malakhov has skied to the North Pole 16 times, including an expedition in 1995 when he made it there and back unsupported. He received Russia’s highest award for such an accomplishment, as a Hero of the Russian Federation. But he’s done much more than that, and is in Alaska