“From our vantage, we gazed across mountains cascading inland as far as the eye can see, surrounded by a carpet of glaciers that wind their way to the horizon. A mosaic of sea ice drifted in the deep blue-black water, and patches of ice and snow were plastered to the steep mountainsides and in the dark valley shadows.” – James Dziezynski, writing from a peak above Tasiilaq, Greenland in August 2011
Lunch stop in Kangerdvitsiaq Fjord, East Greenland. Image copyright Olaf Malver.
James Dziezynski is a hard-core adventurer and freelance writer from Boulder, Colorado, who had the good fortune to travel to Greenland with Olaf Malver, CEO (that’s Chief Exploratory Officer, of course) of Explorers’ Corner, on a kayaking expedition last summer.
While Dziezynski had been to Greenland previously, this outing marked his first visit to the remote, difficult-to-access east coast. In a story for The Adventure Post, he describes this realm as a place where “fractured fjords and inlets, which can extend hundreds of miles inland, offer no great trade route. Enormous, jagged peaks rise upward of 4,000 feet from the sea, and the unpredictable waterways can be clear one moment, and choked with enormous icebergs and flotillas of sea ice the next.”
Stuck in the brash ice in Nansen Fjord, East Greenland. Image copyright: Olaf Malver
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