2019 Coast to coast Greenland expedition

In May 2019 I crossed Greenland on skis from coast to coast, which was something I had wanted to do for a long time. The opportunity came when I started to collaborate with a very well known Norwegian polar expeditions company. I spent a month skiing the 600 or more kilometers that exist between the start of the ice on the west Coast, close to Kangerlussuaq and the end of the glacier close to the Inuit settlement of Isortoq.

It was a 26 day expedition where the weather conditions were good and temperatures not very cold. We passed close to the abandoned American Cold War station DYE2 that was part of the DEW-Line. There were six people in our group and we dragged around 80 kilo sleds per person. It took us five days to reach the plateau using crampons over bare ice. At 1200 meters we put our skis on and continued skiing to reach the East Coast.

On June 2nd we reached the East Coast skiing over the sea ice for some kilometers looking for open waters where an Inuit hunter came with his boat to pick us up.

This was a wonderful trip, a classic expedition that pays tribute to the father of modern polar exploration: Fritdjof Nansen. He also crossed the Inlandsis but in 1888 and in the opposite direction, from the East to Nuuk with a small group and a couple of expert Sami skiers.

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