August 24, 20161 comment
LONG COURSE - Diving Combinations in the heart of a glacier, this is possible. A few meters from camp 3, at the heart of Edward Bailey glacier, Philippe Evrard and bear arms in their little red boats. There are preparing to board down for a bédière, a glacial torrent.
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august 15, 20161 comment
INTERVIEW – Few kilometers away from Edward Bailey Glacier diffluence, in Catalina dal Valley, and about forty kilometers away from Skillebugt fjord, lies a mysterious lake. Its presence here raises many questions, especially about its outflow.
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August 12, 2016Comments are closed A storm on the mysteries of Lake Catalinadal
We can barely see it from the base camp, but it lies there, all sparckly. We all know we need to hike further in the valley to reach it, and that Catalinadal lake is worth it. But our legs are tired. The long portage of yesterday, through moraines and glaciers was exhausting, and the cold night didn't help.
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august 8, 20162 comments
INTERVIEW – To moove from one camp to another, the team experience the pleasant concept of portage. Imagine : going through dozen of kilometer of icy ground, moraines full of collapsing rocks, and jumping over bottomless cracks ...
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august 7, 20162 comments
Here we go again for another full day of portage- 16 km with bags weighting about 20 kg (for girls !). The goal : camp 3, near the difluence of Edward Bailey Glacier.
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August 6, 20161 comment
Tale – Ice axes, crampons, harness and helmet on. We are ready to explore on of the two ice cave that happened to be only few meters away camp 2.
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august 5, 20161 comment
TALE – We went deeper in the valley, through rills and moraines, leaving behind us Apusinikajik and its mysterious fossil glacier. It is unfortunate all of our questions didn't find their answers, but we are looking forward. Looking forward to this new horizon and new perspectives of discoveries.
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august 1st, 20163 comments
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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July 31, 20161 comment
INTERVIEW - Geophysicists Éric Larose and Agnes Helmstetter of the Institute of Science and earth in Grenoble performed two measurement campaigns georadar Wednesday and Thursday in Greenland. A first at the confluence of glaciers Apusinikajik and Edward Bailey Renland, located in the eastern part of the island. And a second measurement on the Apusinikajik glacier.
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July 30, 2016Comments are closed sur L’équipe de Mission Scoresby se dirige vers le glacier Edward Bailey
STORY - After studying for several days Apusinikajik the glacier, the team of Scoresby Mission headed his rival Edward Bailey,
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