lifetime impressions from GREENLAND - 2012

first thing....to get the feeling:  music by Paul Kalkbrenner (Berlin Calling)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQ121kaU1E

- ARCTIC WORLD and back -  

1st chapter: Copenhagen: enjoying beautiful days with my Aurin :)

- city of bikes!

laundromat café

 Nyhavn

 old friend DIRK :) - good to see you, buddy!

 house and chill out music at friday night in one of Copenhagen's churches

 summer time - Santa Clause went on some biiiig holidays....

 

Copenhagen impressions...

 

see you again very soon, my Dear!!!!

 

2nd chapter: bird's view on icy terrains - flight to Greenland

Copenhagen

Iceland

Iceland - world of mountains, volcanoes and glaciers

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

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 :)





5^th 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!

6^th 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 ;)

flying out - to drill even more holes!

the camp looks tiny ... and looses its importance with increasing distance...

the pilots...

the real pilots - and gentlemen

pilots at work 

7^th chapter: exploring old camp NGIS – ca. 8 meters below the snow

we're close... ;)

8^th chapter: Saturdays

...cooking and dancing...

...and going home at midnight sun

9^th chapter: impressions and surprises

you would not want to know the story of this poor little fellow...

 following tracks...

10^th chapter: leaving camp - flight back to Kangerlussuaq

leaving the icy areas far behind

glaciers with lots of crevasses

11^th chapter: Russel Glacier - the end of the ice...

12^th chapter: flight back home - into the arms of my Aurin!!!

Goodbye Kanger, Goodbye Polar 6... GOODBYE GREENLAND!

bird's view on the Fjord of Kangerlussuaq (Søndre Strømfjord)

summertime in the polar oceans - ice blocks in the Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Iceland


REUNITED!!!