The Expedition started in 1999 and is continued each summer season with breaks in 2002 and 2005.

In 1999 and 2000 the Polar Passage 2000 expedition started from Denmark and crossed the sector: Denmark, Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands and Iceland. Next year the participants managed to reach the coast of Greenland and to sail around it from the south. Thus, for the first time the North Atlantic was crossed in an open boat. Further the expedition continued along the Islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. In 2001 the Expedition sailed along the Canadian and American coasts to the Bering Strait.

In summer 2003 the seafarers crossed the Bering Strait and on July 19 came to Providenya, the Chukotsky port, where the crew was joined by the fourth participant – Sergey Epishkin.
The Russian stage of the expedition had started.

The Expedition crossed the Chuckchee and the East-Siberian Seas and by August 30 arrived to the mouth of the Indigirka River. Failure in the work of the engines, which started in the Bering Strait, reduced the speed and the crew could not find a shelter during a severe storm. On August 5 at 5 a.m. (local time) Anders Bilgram made a decision to give SOS signal as there appeared a direct life threat and a danger to lose a boat. This SOS signal was received by the COSPAS-SARSAT office. In Tiksy a helicopter of the Russian Air Force was ready for a rescue flight. But at that time the Department of the Russian Ministry for Emergency in Yakutiya (Sakha) found out that a dry cargo ship "Captain Bogatyrev" was located in the area of the disaster. This ship provided all possible help to the crew. Afterwards the crew with the boat was shipped to Tiksy.

In 2004 the Expedition managed to pass the following route: Tiksy-Nizhneyansk- the Cape Svyatoy Nos. Then the boat was shipped back to Denmark for repair works.

In 2006 the Expedition had again started from Copenhagen from the legendary monument to a mermaid and took a course to the East. The explorers overcame the Norwegian and the Barents Seas and left the boat for wintering in Narjan-Mar.

The main objective of the season 2007 is to sail over the section from Narjan-Mar to Tiksy, turning round the Chelyuskin Cape, the northern extremity of Eurasia.

The tactics of the explorers is quite simple: waiting till good weather conditions to pass as quickly as possible over the sectors of the route, using the boat's high-speed characteristics. The crew of Anders Bilgram has to avoid storms, as the wind-generated waves of the height more then 1 meter do not allow the boat to use a gliding regime and considerably reduce speed.