...Zarkov's feat sends a message about the abilities of disabled people all around the world, said expedition leader Matvey Shparo, 27, of Moscow, whose family-business Adventure Club planned the climb. In 1997, Shparo led an expedition of...

...through the sea ice to complete the first known crossing of the Bering Strait on skis. Dmitry Shparo, 56, and Matvey Shparo, 24, left Uelen on the eastern coast of Siberia on March 1. They arrived in Alaska at Cape Thompson, about 140...