The view from the top looks like this:
The day after the seal hunt, I went on a camping and hiking trip with the family hosting me: Dr. Hans Chritian (last name omitted, but you might recognize HC from the NEEM blog, we were at NEEM together), his wife Eva, and his two sons Carl (12) and Anatoli(8). The area we planned to camp and hike was across the bay from Tasiilaq. Rather than hike all the way around the bay, Dines' brother Lazarus boated us across the bay. 
Five minutes into the boat ride, we ran out of gas. So I am officially bad luck to have in a boat if you are a Mikaelson brother (remember the engine troubles with Dines?). Gert, the third brother, brought us fuel and we were on our way a short time later.We set up camp in a gorgeous area in the shadow of the most prominent peak in the range, Mt. Polheim.
The next day, Carl, Hans Christian, and a joining party, hiked five hours through snowfields, rockfields, etc., and did some minor fifth class climbing (only a few small sections with ropes) to reach the 1000 meter summit. The views were incredbile. The water from the glaciers here in Greenland is so pure, you can drink it straight from the streams. At first I was hesitant of this idea, being used to giardia and other parasites in Rocky/Sierra Nevada Mountains. But after watching everyone else repeatedly drink without problems, I succumbed without consequence. Tasty and it made hiking a lot lighter, not having to carry a camelback.
Can you spot Tasiilaq?We were only planning to camp one night, but the campsite was too pristine to leave after only one night. Eva butchered the seal that Dines had saved from the previous hunting trip, the boys caught fish, we had a lovely seal and fish dinner, and stayed another night. The next morning we awoke to find the bay choked with ice (yes, it moves in and out that fast), so perhaps we would have a third night of camping? It looked that way until around 1pm, when Lazarus managed to navigate a weaving route through the ice.
2 comments:
These pictures are so beautiful they don't look real...
That sounds and looks like a great little trip. I bet the views were great.
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