Blog:
Norwegian/Swedish Greenlandexpedition 2007
On Iceland
From Iceland to Greenland
Day 1: A hectic day
Day 2: A great start!
Day 3: Sunshine!
Day 4: Sastrugi damaged the ski
Day 5: The repairs looks ok
Day 6: Another day in sastrugi
Day 07: Phone report
Day 7: Sundaydinner
Day 8: Over 2000
Day 9: A chilly day
Day 10: Less sastrugi
Day 11: Congratulation!
Day 12: Wearing facemasks heading for the top
Day 13: Snow everywhere
Day 14: Got stuck because of bad weather
Day15: Phone report
Day 16: “On the road again…”
Day 17: A beautiful day
Day 18: We are looking at DYE2
Day 19: Wind in the windsack!
Day 20: Phone report
Day 20: Phone report
Day 20: DYE2 and Camp Raven
Day 21: Heading for the west coast
Day 22: We met at last!
Day 23: Downhill
Day 24: We´ve spotted land ahead!
Day 24: Phone report
Day 25: A taste of icing..
Day 26: We are there!
Report from Kangerlussuaq and pictures from the expedition

Day 13: Snow everywhere

-10°C
Fresh breeze Snow
66.37196°N -43.83300°W | 2433 m | Distance today: 15km | Total distance: 265km of approx. 600km

Today we reached the top of the worlds second highest ice cap, 2493 metres above mean sea level. White out conditions, we were tumbling around, seeing nothing. Bad weather,the wind-forces increasing rapidly, it was snowing all the time. Because of this, we camped early in the afternoon, using 4 hours bulding big snow-walls, trying to put up the tents. It was extremely hard doing so and three tent-sticks broke down. In the evening the wind-force was calming down a bit and a flock of birds suddenly appeared from nowhere. The gale is back again, turning around 180 degrees. As a result of this, the wall we were building is now behind the tent! Mads, our meteorology expert (frivind. no), has sent us weather forecasts for the next 48 hours, predicting windy weather and low temperatures. Because of that we probably have to stay here so far. But luckily it´s warm and nice inside our tents.


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