Full details here!  A new winter tour to Iceland and East Greenland is now available with departures in March!  Experience the remarkable history and natural wonders of South Iceland, and the incredibly wild and remote Kulusuk area of East Greenland.  These two places are in stark contrast to each other, but make for a really fulfilling experience of the far north.  The Kulusuk area of East Greenland is one of our favourites.  Here one finds a tiny hunting settlement where old traditions hold fast and people still live by subsistence hunting and fishing amongst an icy Arctic landscape that is spell-boundingly beautiful.  This trip gives you the chance to join these people for a day on their dog sleds - still the most important means of winter travel around here!  ...

Many congtraulations to Fedor Konyukhov and Hans Aronsen who recently completed their dog sled expedition across the Greenland icecap from Isortoq to Ilulissat (see previous blog entry for more details.  They finished in a highly impressive time of 16 days.  They arrived in Ilulissat last week to a great reception and most of the town had turned out to celebrate.  It sounded like a fantastic event.

Photos and updates from the expedition can be found on Fedor's website. 

Due to some new logistical arrangements, we've just reduced the price for our trip to Scoresbysund, East Greenland, in August.  This is a great opportunity to explore one of the world's great wildernesses from the comfort of a boat and wells-stocked hunting cabins.  The trip circumnavigates the remote island of Milne Land, and offers some of the most beautiful and dramatic fjordland scenery one can imagine.

This is a good chance to have a great adventure with a little comfort.  No experience necessary!

Click here for more details, pictures and prices!

For the last month I've been heavily involved with icecap logistics with our sister company Greenland Expedition Specialists.  There's been a LOT going on, and we've provided logistical and guiding services for 6 expeditions attempting Greenland icecap crossing expeditions.  It's been a busy time.  For a full round of updates, have a look at the page on the GES website.

Particularly pleasing was my colleague Matt Spenceleey's recent success on the icecap.  He was guiding fellow Brits James Alexander and Nick Anderson on a rarely attempted route between Isortoq in East Greenland and Ilulissat in the west.  Having battled through heavy and deep snow in the early stages (which confined many other teams to their tents), they were finally able to make use of their snowkites and thereafter made incredible progress to the west coast.  Te completed the crossing of 640 km in 18 days.  I sent out a few dog sleds to meet them, and now they are safely back in Ilulissat.  A fantastic achievement.  Some voice...

Lots and lots going on at the moment.  I'm just back from a fantastic dog sledding expedition in the Kulusuk area of East Greenland with some of our Inuit friends.  Meanwhile, we've had mountaineering and Arctic training expeditions going on, and the first of several icecap teams working with us arrived on the ice yesterday.  Keep an eye on their website for up dates from them.  We have 5 more teams departing over the next few weeks, including a dog sled crossing from Isortoq to Ilulissat with renowned Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov.

So, lots to update you on, and I'll try to fill in the gaps over the next few days.

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 A bit of a late entry, but here's news of a great trip... The call came in a few months ago that a Japanese television production company wanted to film iceberg climbing somewhere in Greenland.  We should say at this point that climbing on giant chunks of floating ice is usually at best fatalistic and, at worst, fatal.  However, in very particular conditions, and with a lot of fore-thought, it can be relatively safely done.  At the beginning of February, with these factors in mind, a safety and climbing team from sister company Greenland Expedition Specialists set off by dog sled with a huge pile of equipment and travelled the mountainous route into a remote fjord that we hoped would prove to be a suitable venue. 

Our first sight of the fjord was stunning; surrounded by low mountains, the Icecap met the fjord head in one long calving ice cliff whilst soft winter light picked out numerous icebergs, trapped in the skin of ice that covered the fjord.

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