North Greenland Windsled Expedition

Inuit Windsled Project is about to take a giant step forward with the launch and implementation of a regular series of expeditions covering the entire North Greenland Ice Cap and adjacent lands.

These will be known as the North Greenland Inuit Windsled Expeditions, and they represent the culmination of years of development of the Inuit Windsled project and its establishment as a permanent, zero-emissions scientific platform.

North Greenland is the ideal region for the Inuit Windsled: one of the most remote and inaccessible areas of the Northern Hemisphere, it holds great scientific importance and is extremely difficult and costly to explore. For that reason, the Inuit Windsled is uniquely suited to travel deep into this vast territory north of 72ºN.

The 2025 expedition marked the beginning of this long-term initiative and served as the very first journey in the North Greenland Inuit Windsled Expeditions series.

This includes the establishment of a logistical hub in Upernavik, with defined strategies for accessing and exiting the Ice Cap—whether by helicopter or overland—as well as equivalent systems on the east coast, departing from Ittoqqortoormiit.

Solving all these logistical elements will be key for the future of zero-emissions scientific exploration in North Greenland. Upernavik will serve as the main hub, thanks to its strategic location and the presence of a stationed helicopter, which provides critical access to the Ice Cap.