Greenland Expedition 2010

Not your average vacation


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Day 0: 30 minutes to takeoff

We are finally done packing and will head out to the edge of the icefall in about 30 minutes. We are in good spirits and can’t wait to embark on our journey. Fresh reports say that the melting in the icefall is more severe than is common for this time of year, so we might [...]

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Saltfjellet is beautiful

After two days of skiing we are now lying comfortably in our tent with some time to spare to test out the satellite communications equipment. The first day was somewhat shortened by Christian arriving by plane and the drive out to Saltfjellet. Hiking from our car to our first camp site was quite challenging as [...]

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First satellite post

We finally got around to testing the satellite communications equipment. After some initial issues we now have it working. This should enable usto update our webpage with text and images during our training trip to Hardangervidda next week.

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First mobile post

I mentioned in an earlier post that we are aiming to provide daily updates from the crossing. To be able to do that I have slapped together some third party software with some code I have written myself. The first version enables us to post via mobile web browsers and MMS text messages. Next up [...]

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