first thing....to get the feeling: music by Paul Kalkbrenner (Berlin Calling)
- ARCTIC WORLD and back -
1st chapter: Copenhagen: enjoying beautiful days with my Aurin :)
- city of bikes!
laundromat café
Nyhavn
house and chill out music at friday night in one of Copenhagen's churches
Copenhagen impressions...
see you again very soon, my Dear!!!!
2nd chapter: bird's view on icy terrains - flight to Greenland
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| Copenhagen |
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| Iceland |
Iceland - world of mountains, volcanoes and glaciers
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| after spending few days in Kangerlussuaq (A) at Greenland's western coast, a plane of the Airforce would take us to NEEM Camp at 77.45°North (B) |
3rd chapter: Kangerlussuaq - waiting for our flight to NEEM CAMP
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| wasting time... |
exploring wildlife
summer: time out for huskies
4th chapter: arrival on the inland ice – first impressions of the NEEM camp
ready for take-off
ready for landing after about 2.45 hrs flight
first impressions
the camp...
food and sleeping tents (red weather ports), toilet tent (yellowish), and tomatoes (sleeping cabins of the cook and mechanic :) )
where's home...?
our girls' tent
find the knubbel :)
5th chapter: camp life - when not working
5th chapter: camp life - when not working
enjoying the remoteness of the couch at the end of the skiway
daily take-offs and landings of research plane Polar 6 from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute
for my
honeydew-SMOOTHIE!
snowblowing
digging holes in the ice for new toilets - thanks, Tyler!
6th chapter: science - one of the many reasons we were here...
getting the German drill ready...or not.
drill school
waiting for our teacher - busy Trevor - and...
... making snow angels
now... GO FOR IT!
...get the core!
...there you go!
but now...
... let the captains do the real work ;)
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| flying out - to drill even more holes! |
the camp looks tiny ... and looses its importance with increasing distance...
pilots at work
7th chapter: exploring old camp NGIS – ca. 8 meters below the
snow
we're close... ;)
8th chapter: Saturdays
...cooking and dancing...
...and going home at midnight sun
9th chapter: impressions and surprises
you would not want to know the story of this poor little fellow...
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10th chapter: leaving camp - flight back to Kangerlussuaq
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leaving the icy areas far behind
glaciers with lots of crevasses
11th chapter: Russel Glacier - the end of the ice...
12th chapter: flight back home - into the arms of my Aurin!!!
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| Goodbye Kanger, Goodbye Polar 6... GOODBYE GREENLAND! |
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| bird's view on the Fjord of Kangerlussuaq (Søndre Strømfjord) |
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| summertime in the polar oceans - ice blocks in the Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Iceland REUNITED!!!  |
