september 2016
September 9, 2016Comments are closed on "Donna Wood Donna Wood, do you copy? "
TALE – At the camp, it's a peaceful day. Everyone is betting on Evrard and Laurent arrival time. In the afternoon, hearing the noise of an engine, we climb up the rocks behind the camp. We were expecting to see Ingkasi speedboat looming between the icebergs, and we are all surprised to see the Donna Wood coming straight to us. We rejoice at seeing again this oak tall ship that brought us from Iceland to Greenland.
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September 8, 2016Comments are closed sur The Scoresby Mission – Overview, part 1 (English)
Iceland was our gateway to Greenland’s East coast. We all landed in Reykjavik on July 13th in the evening, and drove through the night to the little harbor of Húsavík on the north coast. The next morning, we got onboard the Donna Wood, a 100-year old Danish lighthouse ship used today by the whale watching company North Sailing for tours in Greenland. It took three days to sail across the Arctic ocean to the 400 people strong settlement of Ittoqqortoormiit, one of the most isolated village on earth.
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septembre 7, 2016Comments are closed sur Comment communiquer depuis l’autre bout du monde ?
EXPLANATION – You had been able to read many news, on the muskoxen, glacier experimentsand life in the base camp, ... But how did we communicate from the midle of nowhere, lost in between the glaciers or the earth of the tundra ? Let's focus on one of the main issue (another one!) of the expedition.
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septembre 7, 20162 comments
TALE – Thanks to satellites phones, we could gather news from Evrard, who left for Ittoqqortoormiit with the biologists Tanguy and Nicolas, the geophysicists Eric and Agnès, and the journalist Marie-Lilas to Constable Pynt Airport. I will also buy some more food supplies, rent two kayak, and welcome the free diver Laurent Marie.
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September 6, 2016Comments are closed What is known about muskox?
EXPLANATION - Unexpected meeting with a muskox. Grazing just few hundred meters away from our base camp, the peacefull beast rised many questions. What do we know of this mammal, typical of the arctic tundra ? How does he survivein these extreme conditions ? Who is he mainly hunted by ? Read here some answers by ecologists Tanguy Daufresne and Nicolas Gaidet (Cirad).
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September 4, 2016Comments are closed sur L’étrange crépitement d’un glacier au Groenland
SOUND - From one of the floating glacier of Scoresby Sund - the biggest fjord network in the world - a smooth crackling noise can be heard. Stress released by the ice ? Listen to Evrard, describing this magical instant.
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September 2, 20162 comments
What (and when !) do we eat ? What (and when !) do we sleep ? And above all : what are we doing up there ? A summary of our beautifull (but hard) days, in one of the most remote place on earth.
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