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Liverpool Land North - South Traverse Liverpool Land North - South traverse Tangent expeditions www.greenlandexpeditions.com Liverpool land north-south traverse This three-week traverse is a classic polar Hauling all your own equipment and food in journey through the remote mountains and specially designed pulk sleds, you’ll camp glaciers of Liverpool Land. Starting at Kap throughout the journey. The exact route you Greville, you’ll ski 150km to the southern tip of take will depend on the glacial conditions, Liverpool Land, finishing in the Inuit village of weather and group preferences. Tangent Ittoqqortoormiit. Your journey will take you Expeditions’ groups have pioneered several across high icefields and into frozen fjords, new variations of the traverse. through the land of polar bears and the midnight sun. OVERVIEW After arriving at Constable Point, Tangent here. Continuing southwards, you’ll spend a Expeditions’ operational base in north east night in a remote hunters’ cabin with natural Greenland, you’ll spend the afternoon at base hot springs. getting to know the other members of your group, doing initial training and checking all The Istorvet ice field is the longest ice field your equipment and food is ready. The crossing on the trip, taking several days and following day, Tangent Expeditions’ eventually dropping you into the scenic valley snowmobile guides will transport you to Kap of Kalkdal. A second food cache may be Greville at the northern end of Liverpool Land collected here. Climbing higher again, the – a journey of 4-6 hours. You’ll spend the night Bjerring Pedersens and Age Nielsens glaciers here. will drop you down to the eastern coast of Liverpool Land. From here, there’s only a short Over the next 14-16 days, you’ll traverse the stretch left to reach Ittoqqortoormiit, the whole peninsula, spending around 6-9 hours finishing point of the traverse. Tangent each day skiing. Your journey will take you over Expeditions’ snowmobiles will transport you the northern ice field, before dropping down back to Constable Point and your flight home. to Carlsberg Fjord. If your group has chosen to leave food caches, you’ll pick up your first one www.greenlandexpeditions.com 2 DETAILS 2020 DATES 16 April – 5 May PRICE £8950 2021 DATES 16 April – 5 May Price includes: return flights between Akureyri (north Iceland) & Constable Point (Greenland); guiding; all food DURATION 20 days whilst in Greenland; use of group and safety equipment. GROUP SIZE 2-6 people plus guide Price does not include: compulsory insurance; travel to/from/within Iceland; Iceland accommodation & food; Please note that we can, on request, arrange a personal clothing & equipment. bespoke expedition package on dates to suit See page 28 for more information. you. Contact us for more information. ITINERARY Subject to weather and local conditions, the typical itinerary for the expedition will be as follows: DAY 1 Meet in Akureyri, Iceland for your flight to Constable Point, north east Greenland. The afternoon will be spent at Tangent Expeditions’ base at Constable Point, getting to know the rest of your group and guide. You’ll also check all your personal equipment for the traverse, issue the group kit, and discuss the intended route and expedition plan with your guide. You’ll camp in your expedition tent at base. DAY 2 Snowmobile transport to Kap Greville, taking around 4-5 hours. Camp at expedition start point. DAYS 3 – 18 Spend around 14 days traversing the length of Liverpool Land, travelling around 10km each day. DAY 19 Finish the traverse at the Inuit village of Ittoqqortoormiit. DAY 20 8am snowmobile transport back to Constable Point, taking around 2 hours, before your return flight to Akureyri, Iceland. Please note that the exact itinerary will be determined based on weather/local conditions, participants’ previous experience and group objectives. www.greenlandexpeditions.com 3 4 LOCATION Liverpool Land is a distinct promontory on the east coast of Greenland, at 71° North. Its east coastline is filled with fjords and inlets, whilst on the west it is joined to the mainland with a 30km stretch of land, frozen fjords to its north and south. Tangent Expeditions’ base at Constable Point airfield lies west across Hurry Fjord, a huge expanse of frozen water over 10km wide. Several possible traverse routes are shown on this map. Whichever one you take (or a new variation) will depend on the current conditions, as glaciers are ever-changing. Your guide will assess the conditions at the time of your traverse and make this decision. Who is my guide? Tangent Expeditions has a very experienced Your guide will be assigned approximately one and reliable team of mountain and polar month prior to the start date of your guides and mountain instructors who work expedition and you will be notified of their with us on a regular basis and have significant contact details. He/she will contact you prior previous arctic Greenland guiding experience. to your trip to check if you have any queries or need further information. www.greenlandexpeditions.com 6 How much experience do I need? The Liverpool Land Traverse is our toughest and you will soon learn the skills required and longest guided expedition. Participants during the first few days of the expedition. booking on to the Traverse should be fit and capable of enduring up to 10 hour mountain You should have regular camping experience, days with a heavy load. A good indication of and some backpacking experience, though this this would be regular hill backpacking, doesn’t need to be in winter conditions. You mountain running or multiple day ski tours. will be required to set up your own tent and You should have no significant knee or back cook for yourself throughout the expedition. problems. Full training will be given in the use of expedition stoves and tents. Participants don’t need any previous ski experience, although this would be If you have any questions about your advantageous. It’s recommended that you experience or fitness level, please contact spend a weekend in Scotland or the Alps trying Tangent Expeditions before booking. out your ski set up if you have never skied before. Pulling a pulk isn’t technically difficult … Who are the other participants? The trip will have between two and six the same experience, giving you all common participants, plus guide. You are welcome to ground and the opportunity to spend time and book onto the expedition with friends or a build friendships with like-minded people. partner – please let us know at the time of booking if this is the case, so that we can If you prefer not to share a tent with a arrange accommodation sharing appropriately. participant of the opposite gender, please let us know at the time of booking and we will try The other participants may be of any age or to take this into account, although this cannot gender, and from all over the world. Everyone be guaranteed. on the expedition will have signed up to share www.greenlandexpeditions.com 7 Of my nine expeditions to Greenland the Liverpool Land traverse remains one of my favourite trips. A great physical challenge with an exploratory feel, journeying through deep valleys and across high plateaus showing the stunning range of scenery that Eastern Greenland provides. A truly adventurous journey!” Alan Halewood, Liverpool Land Traverse Guide 2012 www.greenlandexpeditions.com 8 What is a typical day? Each morning you’ll wake in your tent and use your group, whilst your guide does the the snow you’ve collected the night before to complex navigation required to get you melt for water before even leaving your through the mountains. Deep snow can make sleeping bag. This helps to warm the tent up, travel difficult, meaning you’ll all need to take as well as providing drinks for the day and turns at the front, breaking trail. water for your freeze-dried breakfast. Once you arrive at your evening destination, Once you’ve eaten it’s time to pack everything you’ll work with your tent mates to put up up for the day. To start with, expect your your tent and build snow walls around it, to morning routine to take up to three hours, protect the camp from storms. You’ll also take though this will reduce to under two hours as turns in setting up a toilet area for the group. the expedition progresses. You’ll pack your personal belongings into your pulk, then split For dinner you’ll prepare a freeze-dried meal the tent and stove between you and your tent by melting snow. Other evening tasks include mate(s). collecting clean snow for the next morning, finding your next day’s food from your pulk Skis on, it’s time to go for the day. Your guide and dealing with any personal and equipment will have discussed the day’s plan with you the maintenance, e.g. blisters or a loose ski night before. Pulling a pulk on skis is binding. Your guide will chat with the group to straightforward on flat and gentle inclines. On see how everyone is feeling, and make plans steeper slopes, you may have to employ a pulk for the next day. brake (a piece of rope underneath to slow it down), or shuttle pulks down between two Overnight it can drop as low as -30°C. When people. camping near the coast, you’ll need to undertake a rotating bear watch, where one You’ll spend 6 – 9 hours skiing throughout the person sits outside keeping an eye out for day, with regular stops for food, photos and to polar bears. This can be a beautiful time of re-group.
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