SEE ALSO
Greenland '98
Denali '99
Ed Viesturs
Climbs 8K Peaks
Everest '99
Everest Archives
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Expedition Dispatches
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It's a Bird, It's a Plane...It's an Otter!
Friday, June 25, 1999 — 6:21am (PST)
"I'm watching the Twin Otter land on the glacier at this moment, and, as you might imagine, it's a beautiful sight for us..."
Greenland Powder 8s
Thursday, June 24, 1999 — 8:13am (PST)
"I'm looking across at a beautiful slope of fresh powder, and I'm watching our entire group carve beautiful turns..."
Team Downs 40 Eggs
Thursday, June 24, 1999 — 6:32am (PST)
"I...reported to them when the five of them had finished that they had just consumed 40 eggs!...And, as soon as we were finished with the eggs, we got the chocolate chip cookies out..."
Golden Midnight
Wednesday, June 23, 1999 — 5:09pm (PST)
"I might actually go up and take a midnight ski run....Matter of fact, that sounds like a really good idea. I don't know why I'm sitting here in the snow talking on the phone when I could be skiing..."
The Team Summits Gunnbjornsfjeld!
Tuesday, June 22, 1999 — 4:21pm (PST)
"I would estimate...40mph continuous on the summit ridge, but...the entire party summited on Gunnbjornsfjeld about 4:15 this afternoon..."
Suiting Up Under Blue Skies
Tuesday, June 22, 1999 — 1:31am (PST)
"Definitely much appreciated to see this blue sky after being confined to your tent for umteen hours in here. Even if it was Wally in the tent..."
Summer Solstice?
Monday, June 21, 1999 — 10:18am (PST)
"We do a lot of communicating tent to tent that way, just yelling through the storm: hey, we need another pot of tea!..."
Buttoned Down
Monday, June 21, 1999 — 5:22am (PST)
"Our big plan for the summer solstice has not happened yet, and in fact, I don't think it will happen..."
In Position for Gunnbjornsfjeld
Sunday, June 20, 1999 — 2:21pm (PST)
"If we're lucky and things go well, we're looking to climb Gunnbjornsfjeld, the highest peak above the Arctic Circle, on the summer solstice..."
Right Where We Want To BeSaturday, June 19, 1999 — 10:55am (PST)
"Then we continued the rest of our route: a very aesthetic, varied sort of a route climbing up a series of ramps and ridges to a really pretty summit ridge..."
Dangerous Angle, Dangerous AspectFriday, June 18, 1999 — 2:25am (PST)
"Willi and I looked over yesterday afternoon and noticed that in fact, this slope had slid. The very one we went up some time ago..."
The Old MasterThursday, June 17, 1999 — 12:37pm (PST)
"We practiced our snow climbing technique, and the whole time I was talking a great deal about ski touring technique, skiing efficiently, as we're going to have to do when we begin moving with these packs..."
The Otter Has Landed!Thursday, June 17, 1999 — 2:06am (PST)
"The second Alpine Ascents expedition is underway...the plane landed, and it was a great reunion for me with some old friends..."
Wally Wins the TossWednesday, June 16, 1999 — 5:55am (PST)
"Wally and I flipped a quarter, and it looks like Wally's going to stay on the ice this trip...."
One Helluva WhiteoutMonday, June 14, 1999 — 10:37am (PST)
"We were in complete whiteout trying to find our way back to High Camp....We had to navigate with compass and altimeter and finally came across our tracks..."
High Camp on GunnbjornsfjeldSaturday, June 12, 1999 — 11:52am (PST)
"We're breaking through a crust of about four or five inches....[We] should be able to get up to the base of the mountain tomorrow morning and do the climb..."
Halfway Through Don QuixoteThursday, June 10, 1999 — 11:24am (PST)
"John Dufficy built himself his first igloo, and he's living in it now....It's about six feet tall, and he has to crawl through a very dubious tunnel to get into it..."
Banana PancakesWednesday, June 9, 1999 — 3:09am (PST)
"Our goal right now is to move to a high camp and climb Gunnsbjornfjeld tomorrow and maybe take a rest day and climb the highest unclimbed peak..."
The FractureMonday, June 7, 1999 — 12:30am (PST)
"...the fracture took off and settled all around us—a huge fracture line all the way around. It wasn't deep, but it was big—scary because we were on a steep slope right above crevasses..."
Howlin' WindsSunday, June 6, 1999
" We're in Greenland. We've been here about 25 to 30 hours. A couple hours after we arrived, the wind started picking up and it's been blowing like mad ever since so we've just got nothing but blowing snow outside..."
Skiing is BelievingSaturday, June 5, 1999
"Today's flight to Greenland got us much further north obviously, and we're looking here across some glaciers and around a couple of bends at Gunnbjornsfjeld, which we will attempt to climb in a couple days...."
Team Has LandedSaturday, June 5, 1999
"We just landed about three hours ago. It's beautiful here. There're some high winds up high and a little windy down low, but other than that it's great..."
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