By taking the northern route he would avoid two of those.
"Why don't we just take the northern route and be done with it?"
The company split and the majority took the longer northern route.
There are basically three: the northern, central and southern routes.
The previous record for the northern route, set by Butcher in 1986, was 11 days 15 hours 6 minutes.
The first transport flight went out July 1, 1941, on the northern route.
It would have meant that they might never reach civilization by the northern route.
A. In the days when we had to run pretty fast, we took a straight northern route.
"What're the chances of picking up a pilot for this northern route from your people?"
The northern route was easier, but far more exposed to raids.