On day 12, the waves picked up.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg’s wind-powered journey across the Atlantic Ocean hit a particularly stormy stretch on Sunday. Thunberg and her sailing team, en route to a U.N. Climate Action Summit (and Mashable’s Social Good Summit) in New York City, hit rough seas some 300 miles from Canada’s Nova Scotia. She noted this in a brief Twitter video update, soon after a wave crashed over the boat.
“It’s very rough with very high waves,” Thunberg said.
Amid a long seafaring journey surrounded by boundless waters and the formation of a tropical storm in the north Atlantic, Thunberg and her team have consistently reported undaunted spirits. Read more…
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