Greenland had enthralled me to a point until recently. Now it’s blown my mind. Having been lucky enough in the last few weeks to enjoy several helicopter flights over some of our homebase mountains in Liverpool Land, the scale of Greenland’s wild mountain ranges was obvious; huge mountains cut by glaciers in a pattern that […]
Read More ›Over four long days being bathed in the now 24 hours of sun we now have, we travelled 380km as far into the west as we have been so far. Our travels took us through valleys, over fjords and up glaciers. More and more this great country astounds us with its sheer beauty and deep […]
Read More ›We arrived in Greenland over a month ago and in that time snow has fallen only once. It arrived early in our trip and was delivered with 85km/hr winds. Needless to say the mountains were left with less snow cover than before the storm. We awake daily to the sight of beautiful clear skies and […]
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Yesterday we spent the day in the only local settlement close to us, a village called Ittoqqortoormiit. Pronounced E-TOK-O-TOR-MIT. It’s about 2-3 hours from our base by snowmobile and is completely surrounded by snow covered mountains and frozen seas and sits at the mouth of the Scorseby Fjord, the largest fjord in the world. Yesterday […]
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Between snowmobiling expeditions the Adventure For Change team have been busy exploring the Arctic on foot and two days ago climbed our first peak! This is an incredible landscape of frozen fjords, sharp jagged mountains, icecaps and valleys. It really is the Arctic in all its glory and we feel extremely privileged just to be […]
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Tomorrow we travel to the coast to access a small hut on a frozen fjord. Polar Bears roam there in search of food. Even though the last thing we want is to shoot a bear should something go wrong, we have to be prepared for anything. Polar Bears are one of the only animals on […]
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After 48hrs of cyclonic wind and snow the weather clears and the digging begins…
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Our first afternoon off and we loved every minute of it!
Read More ›Landing at Constable Point invoked an instant feeling of remoteness. The airport services a local village called ittoqqortoormiit (about 5 hrs by snowmobile, or 12 minutes by helicopter). It has a population of around 469 and is one of the most remote towns in Greenland – I guess that makes it one of the most […]
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