Sydkap – Windy dance between Icebergs

There is one week left before our flight back to Iceland. The clock is ticking. Ironicaly, without boat, we had never been that still.We are stuck. Outside the hutt, the wind is blowing. Sheltered in our new home, we enjoy the unique scenery: A ballet of giant Icebergs . From small ice cubes, to huge iced cliffs they seem stuck in an eternal dance. Evrard is mesmerized by the biggest Icebergs, he dreams of accosting these magestic iced ships. Ice axes in his hands, crampons on his feet, he is ready to challenge these white wall, tainted of blue .

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Amongst the Icebergs

TALE – Evrard and Laurent have finally join us, the mission can carry on. The last days of rest on Harefjord base camp has really perk us up, we all want to go for new adventures !

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They walked on an Iceberg !

For Science of course, but also for their own pleasure, Eric Larose, Agnès Helmstetter and Evrard Wendenbaum climb up an Iceberg floating in Harefjord, to equip it with sismic sensors. Tale of this once in a life time experience. .

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« I felt the way than when I was watching volcanic eruptions »

TESTIMONY - Eric Larose, Geophysicist at Grenoble Isterre, talks with emotion about his last adventure. Alongside Evrard, he went down more than thirty meters deep, in a moulin on Edward Bailey glacier.

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Greenland's Icebergs stunning pictures

To get to the other shore, the team is using a small speed boat, driven by Ingkasi, a local hunter. These cold journeys bring us in the midlle of a field of huge Icebergs dancing in the wind.

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What sounds an Iceberg like?

AUDIO – Geophysicists Eric Larose and Agnès Helmstetter set up sismic sensors on an Iceberg. Here is what they captured :

Climbing above an Iceberg Graveyard.

STORY - The front of Apusinikajik stood before us, a wide cracked face, about 25m high. Ice axes in hands, crampon tights to our shoes, exitation in our hearts and even a bit of fear for few of us, we are ready for the thrill of adventure. The previous days, some lucky member of the team already get to know the glacier in an intimate way : they rappeled down a moulin about 30m deep. In front of their eyes, thousends of blues sparkling and shimmering.

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Le Carnet d’Evrard #1

18/07/2016
Nous nous réveillons sous un soleil radieux au-dessus du village d’Ittoqqortoormitt. La vue plongeante sur le fjord avec quelques icebergs isolés est spectaculaire. Ittoqqortoormiit, situé au-delà de 71° degrés de latitude, est le village le plus septentrional de la côte est du Groenland. Au-dessus, rien que des fjords sauvages et quasi inaccessibles jusqu’à l’extrémité nord de l’île constituant le plus grand parc national du monde.

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