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Expedition Reports

The following notes summarise reports from the supported expeditions from 2009 to 2019. Reports can be refined by geographical area and purpose.

47 Expeditions found

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Map of Svalbard and Jan Mayen

University of Wales Svalbard Glacier Survey

Greenland & Arctic
Ref: 02/22
April - May 2002
Andy Pope with Dr Adrian Luckman, and working in conjunction with a party from the University of Leeds
With a 10-15cm rise in sea level during the last 100 years, the Arctic has been identified as an area particularly sensitive to future climatic change. This team therefore planned to quantify the volu Read more
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Cambridge Greenland Glaciology 2002

Greenland & Arctic
Ref: 02/19
July - August 2002
Chris Lockyear with Natalie Clegg, Sam Harrison, Madeleine Humphreys and Derek Marshall
Louise Boyd Land is in NE Greenland and, being rarely visited, offered an ideal venue for a programme of field research into glaciology and geology, the first step towards making a computer model of t Read more
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Lemon Mountains 2002

Greenland & Arctic
Ref: 02/17
July - August 2002
Dr Roy Ruddle with Derek Buckle, Geoff Cohen, Robert Durran, Andy Gallagher, Rachel Gallagher, Martin Scott and Dave Wilkinson
This mainly Alpine Club team operated as four pairs to explore and make first ascents, particularly in the North Lemon Mountains, which cover an area of 300 sq km. The most significant achievement was Read more
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Scottish Lemon Mountains 2003

Greenland & Arctic
Ref: 03/44
June - July 2003
Graham Stein with Alison Callum, lain Hall, Andy Lole, Brian Moretta, Phil Reynolds, John Sanders, Andy Saxby, Clare Stein and Jago Trasler
The Lemon Mountains have proved to be an attractive destination for expeditions in recent years, but this team proved that they still offer scope for first ascents. After setting up a base camp on the Read more
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Scottish East Greenland 2003

Greenland & Arctic
Ref: 03/34
June - August 2003
Malcolm Thorburn with Douglas Campbell
On completion of expeditions to the area in 1997 (MEF 97/15) and 1999 (MEF 99/16) these regular 'Greenlanders' showed amazing confidence in caching their pulks etc. at the edge of the ice cap for retu Read more
Map of Greenland

Midnight Sun 03

Greenland & Arctic
Ref: 03/33
July 2003
Martin Bohl with Bob Appleyard, Guy Beaumont, Rob Coles, Sean Dolan, Sue Dolan, Mike Palmer and Phill Smithson
This team chose the Rignys Bjerg range of mountains in East Greenland for their expedition, since easy - though not cheap - access could be arranged using the services of Tangent Expeditions, and it w Read more
Map of Greenland

Prins Christian Sund 2003

Greenland & Arctic
Ref: 03/29
June - July 2003
Ben Heason with Nick Boden, Tom Briggs, Miles Gibson, Adrian Jebb, Steve McClure, Rob Mirfin and Simon Moore
The prime objective of this team of rock climbers was the first ascent of an unnamed granite peak immediately east of Igdlorssitt Havn in the Prins Christian Sund area of South Greenland; this had bee Read more
Map of Greenland

British Australian Torssukatak Spires 2003

Greenland & Arctic
Ref: 03/22
July - August 2003
Jon Roberts with Dewi Durban, James Mehican, plus Richard Sonnerdale from Australia.
This team of rock climbers selected the Cape Farewell area for their first visit to Greenland. A new 1,400m E3 5c route 'The Cruise Line', was achieved on The Thumbnail (E face of Agdlerussakasit, fir Read more
Map of Greenland

British Southern Kangerdlugssuaq 2003

Greenland & Arctic
Ref: 03/21
July - August 2003
Brian Davison with Pete Brookes, Bill Church, Clive Dandridge, Pete Nelson, Mike Pettipher, Graham Robinson and Dave Wilkinson
A ski-equipped Twin Otter from Iceland landed this team close to their intended base camp at 1,700m in a snow basin at the head of the Nordre and Søndre Parallelgletschers. From here, in a period of s Read more
Map of Greenland

British Knud Rasmussen Land 2003

Greenland & Arctic
Ref: 03/20
July - August 2003
Bob Dawson with John Diplock, Mark Diplock, Jan Lancaster and 8teve Long
Knud Rasmussen Land is one of the least visited areas of East Greenland, so gave plenty of scope for this team to explore and make first ascents. They soon discovered that the rock was extremely friab Read more