Since March 28th, when we reached Greenland, we have been finalizing the preparations for the WindSled. At the same time, we were solving a geographical challenge, consisting of being able to ascend to the ice cap with the heavy load of our two exploration expeditions. In total, over 3000 kilograms of cargo.

The glacier is cracked and fractured along all its slopes, making it almost impossible to access the plateau from the coast. After exploring numerous areas, we concluded that the only way was to transport the cargo by boat from Narsaq to the edge of the Qaleralik ice pack, transport it across the ice pack on sleds with the help of our snowdogs, a very simple and lightweight caterpillar track, and once there, haul the cargo up the glacier edge through an ice wall with the help of a snowmobile, which we had previously transported to the glacier by another route through the tundra, much longer and more difficult.

Like in an elevator, we ascended the 25-meter wall to the flat part from which we can safely go to our base camp on the Nunatak at 400 meters altitude.

In total, dozens of transfers, a laborious and tedious job.

On April 15th, we almost finished bringing the last load to the ice wall; the ice pack was breaking up, and we had to use the bridge sleds. In fact, I fell into the water up to my waist; the day was rainy, and we were wet in any case.

We decided to return to sleep in Narsaq so that the next day we would definitively go up to haul the total cargo up the ice wall.

The ice pack is flooded and about to break.

Today, April 16th, it is still raining, and we have decided that it does not make sense to start the journey today, so we are making the final preparations, and tomorrow, the 17th, we will definitively depart at dawn. We hope to finish hauling the ice wall and the cargo onto the Nunatak. By the 18th or 19th, we will venture into the ice cap to make a first haul to Windsled Harbour. And then come back for more cargo.

My colleagues Jens Jacob Simonsen, Miguel Angel Vidal, and Juanma Sotillos are working very hard, and Joorut Knudsen, the fifth member of the expedition and a farmer friend from Qassiarsuk, will join us tomorrow morning.