Going back to NE-Greenland

Tomorrow I will go to NE-Greenland again, again... this time with "Fram" from Hurtigruten.

there will be around 220 passengers on board, mostly from Germany and we will be 8 guides and lectures. Palle Norit, a former Sirius member from my fathers time in the 60´s is also on board. The plan is to sail from Reykjavik to Scoresbysund-Mestersvig-Alpefjord-Blomsterbugten-Daneborg-Myggbukta-Ella Ö-Isafjörður and Reykjavik.

This will be a trip right into my own backyard so to speak;0). finally i will be able to go to a Greenlandic town, Scoresbysund. this is a bit strange since i have spent almost 8 years inside the National park...

I will try to update my blog during the trip, if not something will come after the trip.

I will be back in Reykjavik on the 23rd and the 24th Anna and I will fly to Denmark to attend to a big party to celebrate that SIRIUS is 60 years old...  then back to Reykjavik on the 26th, and see what my supervisors have to say about my thesis!

The ship has a web-camera and a blog that will be updated every day, so you can see what we are all up to...

http://mvfram.blogspot.com/

HANDED in my master THESIS

tonight I handed in my master thesis, again. hopefully it will be good enough this time. now it is 106 pages and almost 27 000 words, which is a lot. I have been way too busy, i think;0)

my supervisors will go over it while i leave the country and go to Greenland...

Back from Greenland

this photograph is from the Malmbjerget area in NE-Greenland. Malmbjerget is top right mountain.

we had a great trip and spent 2 days in Akureyri, North Iceland due to delays of the ship we were using. So we studied the local town for one day and the swimming-pool and the next day we rented two cars and drove to Myvatn, Dettifoss, Godafoss, Asbyrgi, Husavik and back again. we had a swim in Grjotagja at Myvatn, which is a very warm (for some people not used to warm water) cave with influx of water from a crack in the earth!

Then we flew in two planes to Constable Pynt in Greenland and all cramped together in one twin otter plane and flew up to Mestersvig, overflying Malmbjerget on the way, which was covered in clouds.

the ship we used as base had anchored up in Mesters Vig and not in Nyhavn, so we had to wait for some hours before it had gotten to the right place, so that we could hoist the helicopter on deck and attach the rotor-blades. in the evening we flew up to Malmbjerget to have a look at all the sites and walk around in the camp...

i will write more later

i must do some more work on my thesis which is due on september 12th...

there are a few more pictures on my pictures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlAE12NtbRw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlAE12NtbRw

i came back from Greenland yesterday after 9 days of great weather and good work and many good adventures with good friends.

i lost part of my luggage with my hard drive, pas port and wallet... but hope to find it again.

now i am in school and will have to work hard and finish my thesis...

will write more later

back to Mestersvig, Greenland

it seems like i can never stop going back to my beloved Greenland...

two days ago i came back to Iceland, after spending three weeks in Norway, helping my parents laying floors in their house.

the days in Iceland have been spent catching up with some things on my master thesis, which i am about to be really sick off...

tomorrow i will fly to Akureyri in northern Iceland, where i will stay a night in a hotel and catch up with my fellow co-workers.

Thursday we will fly to Mestersvig, Greenland were we will stay and work for approx two weeks.

altogether we are 7 people, 3 former Sirius members, 1 from station Nord and the rest civilians. we are employed by Quadra mining to clean up and ship home a lot of equipment, fuel drums and garbage from the area around Mestersvig.

an Icelandic ship will be anchored in the bay and we will sleep in containers on the deck and fly helicopter to work every day;0)

it will be long days with many hours of work, so we hopefully will have some time for a small trip or two...

i am not sure if it will be possible to get online, so you just have to wait for my photographs and descriptions from my life...

Back from the highland patrol and gone to norway...

here is a few pictures from the highland patrol last week. more will follow in the days to come.

we had a good week with a lot of changing weather and very few accidents which is good for us.

yesterday i arrived in norway where i will stay until august 1.st and help my parents building their house.

Hálendisgæsla á Kjölur

Today Anna and i will go to the central part of the highlands at Hveravellir at Kjölur and stay there with the rescue team. Anna will stay for the weekend and i will stay there for a whole week. Anna has to work and earn some money for food, since i got unemployed;0)

the rescue team is on duty-watch 24/7 while we are there in case of a rescue mission. this could be anything from people getting lost, injured, falling into crevasses, people getting stuck with their cars on  bad roads or in river crossings. basically anything can happen and we have to be there for the public. it will be a lot of fun and we will see a lot of beautiful landscape and get to know our fellow members of the rescue team. i look forward to this trip, especially getting away from school and my thesis...