Greenland Expedition with Alpine Ascents

Burleson
Burleson
The Conquests Go On
Saturday, June 13, 1998
Hear the Satellite Call from Greenland

Hi you guys, it's Todd, we're still in Greenland. Yesterday was a rest day. We were just real tired from our long journey down the valley, and today my knee was bothering me a bit from the hike, so I kind of stayed around camp.

Dierk and Bene went over and climbed a new peak, I think. A beautiful new route, pretty difficult, it's about 3100 or 3200 meters tall, really beautiful, aesthetic peak. They just got back in and I wanted to report about it.

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(photo: AAI)
We skied by it the other day on our first day here, and you could tell it was great, and it was probably a little harder than they excepted. The summit wasn't bigger than ½ meter by a ½ meter and it was about 45° maybe 15° in some areas. They could climb up and then had to belay down. It took them about ten or eleven hours. The conditions were good and then they had a nice ski down, and they're back in camp and eating dinner.

We'll see what we'll do tomorrow; maybe we'll rest. We'll see how my knee is; it's aching me pretty hard, so I'm going to take it easy for a day or so. Anyway, hope everything is good. Very, very sorry to hear about the Rainier accident and hope that's been gotten under control. We'll talk to you soon. Bye.

— Todd Burleson, Expedition Leader

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