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Expedition to Greenland - Andrew
Lunn
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Clickable image - go straight to the full size photo and diary
entry.
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This set of pages describes an expedition I undertook during
May 2000. The expedition was to the Northeast of Greenland,
to an area called Dronning Louise Land. This area has not
seen previous mountaineering expeditions and so the mountains
we climbed were first ascents.
- Mosaic of some of the better photographs
- Click on the photos to see the full sized photo and the
diary entry for that day
- Aerial Photograph
- An aerial photograph we used for navigation, which shows
the mountains we climbed.
- List of Ascents
- Table listing the mountains we climbed in chronological
order.
Diary
- Introduction
- For those who don't know me here's a little background.
- 10th May
- Flying out and meeting the group
- 11th May
- Flying to Iceland
- 12th May
- Bad news, no flight today, maybe tomorrow
- 13th May
- Bad news, no flight today, maybe tomorrow - again!
- 14th May
- Crevasse rescue and faulty gun
- 15th May
- Cross country skiing
- 16th May
- Digging out the snowdrifts
- 17th May
- Getting to breakfast is a major expedition
- 18th May
- More skiing and news from the rescue team
- 19th May
- Flying into Greenland basecamp, great aerial photos.
- 20th May
- First ascents
- 21st May
- A big summit and a good tour to get a better idea of what
was around.
- 22nd May
- 2025 meters high and given the name Pap Bhan.
- 23rd May
- Mid-Gletscher and Trekanten
- 24th May
- Punktum
- 25th May
- Mallory Fjeld
- 26th May
- Day off and some rebuilding work
- 27th May
- Tent bound (and some sunny photos)
- 28 May
- Defeat and living to try again is all part of exploratory
climbing
- 29th May
- Time to pack up and hope the plane can get in
- 30th May
- Final Thoughts
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Greenland pages by Andrew Lunn, April 2001
Thanks to Mike Amberry for proof reading
and Jake Colbeck for HTML hacking.
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