Greenland (Tasiilaq) - March 2008
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I lived this trek as a pure discovery of the arctic environment. And there are so many things to discover there ! Temperatures almost always negative (at least in Celsius degrees, in Farenheit this is below 32), the near lack of liquid water which changes a bit everyday life. Inuits who, not anymore in a survival situation, now struggle to find a reason to live. The weather, which was kind enough to show us many facets of itself : blizzard, fog with whiteout, snow strom, Piteraq (a katabatic wind which may be extremely violent), and even nice weather ! Add to this dog sleds, seal hunting, icebergs and you will understand that Greenland in winter is a place where othing you will live will be familiar. Total discovery. |
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Photo galleries
You can see the photo gallery of the trek on this site.
You will need Adobe Flash Player to see this gallery. The lower right button of the gallery navigation bar will allow you to see the page full screen with a larger image size. Click on an image to see it with full screen size.
An HTML photo gallery is available if you don't have Adobe Flash Player.
You can also see the trek photos on Flickr. You will find there pictures in their original size, technical informations about them and the place where these pictures were taken. You can leave comments and see the pictures as a slideshow (if you have Adobe Flash Player installed).
Maps
Thanks to Google Maps, you will see below the trek map.
Click on "View Larger Map" to see a full screen map and to be able to load it in Google Earth and see a 3D view. The trek trace you see is not coming from a GPS, so do not try to use the coordinates to perform some actual navigation.
If you can't see the above map, here is an image :
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