“Well, that’s the bears sorted out then,” said my colleague, as he finished setting up the bear alarm around our field camp in remote northeast Greenland. The way he said it was as if this invisible fishing line encircling our tents somehow had the power to repel the half tonne predators. I imagined one of …
Month: September 2018
Last week the Greenlandic coalition government collapsed – again. This time, the problem was airports. For many years, Greenland has been keen on building infrastructure to boost their vulnerable, fishing-based economy. One strand of their infrastructure strategy is to build and expand airports to bring in new airlines and larger aircraft. Finally, a major investor has …
“There’s something a bit odd about taking a loaded gun to the toilet,” my colleague rightly noted. That’s what I’ve been doing this last couple of weeks, that and sleeping with a loaded magnum .44. Both of these are firsts for me. Normally I wouldn’t be so keen, but when sleeping inside a cage with …
Our arrival in Danish military base, Daneborg, was not fun. Daneborg is seventy-four degrees north, in northeast Greenland. To get there we flew from Iceland on a forty-seater Dash-8 aircraft to the gravel airstrip at Constable Point, the official point of entry into the Northeast Greenland National Park – the largest national park in the …