Category: Environment
Northeast Greenland – the arrival.
Our arrival in Danish military base, Daneborg, was not fun. Daneborg is seventy-four degrees north, in northeast Greenland. To get there we flew…
Read MoreLearning to hunt from a book
Reindeer hunting season is upon us again. Hunting is an integral part of life in Greenland. Gun ownership is high, but gun violence…
Read MoreWolves, not foxes
The back of our house looks on to a rocky mountain slope. Now and then we hear the bird-like cries of an Arctic…
Read MoreEternity Fjord – holiday destination of the super-rich
Until a week before our journey, we hadn’t decided if we would sail north or south. In the end, the lure of Evighedsfjord…
Read MoreGlacial slush ice
Glaciers kind of freak me out. They’re beautiful, even awe-inspiring. But also freaky. Huge silent walls of frozen water that sit around doing…
Read MoreSummer’s end
Last week was the longest day of the year, June 21, when in Nuuk the sun rose at 2:53 am and set four…
Read MoreWhere in the world are we?
This picture shows where we anchored our boat on the weekend. Do you notice something odd? Our boat was apparently on land. It’s…
Read MoreFalling through the cracks…again
*File photo of a crevasse It happened again. But this time it was worse. On April 6, a group of alpine touring…
Read MoreHalf a kilometre of cling film
We have a six hundred metre roll of cling film in one of our kitchen drawers. We’ve had it for three years and…
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