Page 49 - 2019 AMA Winter

Kulusuk
It is warm, honest...
Traversing the Apusidjik icefield
Crowberry flowering in the brief Northern Summer
Glenn and the Arctic Fox
actually reached down to the sea. The mist occasionally came in and enveloped us in a silent, mysterious world. It was an awesome, indescribably beautiful and magical place. And almost completely deserted.
So we went, and we climbed, and we mountaineered, and we went from the beach up the glaciers and steered our way through the crevasse fields, and
came out onto big ridges of shattered gabbro. And our students from the ARRC Log Sp Bn did their AMF course by climbing unclimbed peaks. Yup; first ascents. Not big peaks, but unclimbed ones. How many people can say that? Teaching Alpine skills and glaciation was easy; it was all right there. And we ice climbed too; on the beach! On the walls of those glaciers which stretched down to the sea. And we swam with icebergs,
and we swam in high mountain tarns. And we ate blueberries and cranberries and walked across slopes covered with Alpine flowers. And we saw humpback whales on the two hour boat ride up to our campsite, and we made friends with the Arctic Fox which came to our camp at night. Thanks Bruce, for coming up with the idea. Luckily, we didn’t see a Polar Bear. But we might, next time. Because we will, absolutely, be back.
Rakesh, Umesh, Nims and James pondering crevasse rescue drills
Basecamp in the Karale Sound
Medial moraines on the southern glacier
Another unclimbed peak. We also made the first ascent of the smaller peak across the glacier
The three amigos...
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