Tiny, idyllic-looking settlements are sparsely scattered along the coast and fjords of west Greenland. They’re beautiful, but there’s not much work. One of the few jobs is working as an attendant at the local shop. We visited a settlement at the head of a long fjord, small colourful houses dotting the hills, looking down to …
Month: August 2020
In hindsight, it wasn’t a very good idea. Earlier in the day moving between one boat and the other had been easy. After two weeks together, navigating along the coast and fjords of South Greenland, the skippers were adept at manouvering their boats close in the water, pulling up to cliffed walls, delivering passengers onto …
The surprises one meets in Greenland might be out of the ordinary, but the responses one becomes accustomed to are perhaps even more surprising. Such was the case last week. The scene unfolding in our bathroom stopped me in my tracks and the phrase, ‘Destroying the evidence,’ popped into my head momentarily. Then I registered …
Sometimes good things come from bad places. Three years ago, almost to the day, I slipped on a gravelly surface while trekking in the mountains near Maniitsoq on the west coast of Greenland. I heard my fibula snap as I fell screaming and then I lay there on a rocky slab for six hours with …