Burleson

Hear the Satellite Call from Greenland

Not a narrow valley, it's actually quite wide. It looks like it's maybe a mile, but actually eight or nine kilometers wide, this valley we're in. We skied down the valley, out close to the ice pack actually, where the last range of mountains exists before you get out into the ice cap of Greenland and head towards the west coast. We just jumped on our skis and took off and tried to avoid crevasses.

Skied down as far as we could, and we were able to get down there and find the cache. It was much, much farther away than we thought. It took us an hour and thirty minutes to ski down there and a good six, six and a half hours, something like that to ski back. It seemed like it took forever. We were pulling sleds and moving a couple of kilometers an hour. After we saw our camp, we thought we were close and it took another two and a half hours to reach our camp from there. It was pretty amazing.

We're back, and we are taking care of our feet and life is better. The ski plane couldn't land here so it dropped some supplies, as I said, 15 kilometers away. Some fresh fruit and a variety things that make us all happy here in base camp, some fresh meat and some things like that.

— Todd Burleson, Expedition Leader

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