Arctic Alien

This picture shows where we anchored our boat on the weekend. Do you notice something odd? Our boat was apparently on land. It’s…

*Walrus stew with Yorkshire pudding – a first? Today, when I did the following Google search: ‘How long should I boil walrus?’…

Greenland was colonised by the Danish. This statement might seem neither here nor there to most, but the concept of colonialism is outright…

*File photo of a crevasse It happened again. But this time it was worse. On April 6, a group of alpine touring…

Election Day, April 24. The morning commute was slow, like every morning this last week since the tunnel – the only other route…

Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark – a constitutional monarchy that also includes the Faroe Islands. Having long yearned for its…

We have a six hundred metre roll of cling film in one of our kitchen drawers. We’ve had it for three years and…

We’re a three-weapon household. As I write, my husband is cleaning one of his rifles on the kitchen table, preparing it for the…

*Photography by Kim Hansen, Creative Commons Polar bears occassionally turn up around Nuuk. Maybe once every year or two. But they don’t belong…

Greenland from the Outside In