Greenland Expedition 2010

Not your average vacation


Posts Tagged ‘custom’

Custom ski repair kit

In case we break a ski during our crossing we need a way to mend it. This involves a hacksaw, a custom hand drill, some bolts, nuts and a custom aluminium rail. We’ll describe the kit in detail after our return from the ice cap. The aluminium rail was skillfully produced by tinsmith Arne Linchausen [...]

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Insulated gaiters

Like many expeditions before us, we have had great success with the Berghaus Yeti Extreme gaiters. These particular gaiters fits like a sock around the ski boot and closes around your leg with a zipper. In addition to fixing them permanently to our boots we have experimented with insulating them with a thin layer of [...]

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Expedition pulk: 1500 NOK

We have chosen to give the popular Paris-pulk a try in the hope that it will prove a cheap and light expedition pulk for us. So far it’s very promising. We have documented how we prepared it with shock absorbing harness and luggage straps. So far there is only images which can be viewed in [...]

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