The expedition ‘Unexplored Greenland 2024’who tours the island in the polar vehicle ‘wind sleigh’, found mountains that did not appear on the maps1972, and which arose after the ice sheet thinned.
There are several mountains found by explorers at the beginning of their journey through southern Greenland, in a little explored area before, but which demonstrates the alarming Decrease in ice mass caused by global warming.highlighted the Spanish explorer Ramón Larramendi, in a video released on social networks and cited by the Efe agency.
This mountain is not on the 1972 maps of Greenland, everything indicates that it arose by descent from the top of the ice sheet, but it is so large that it is incredible. pic.twitter.com/QwkzXMZHYd
— Ramón Larramendi (@RamonLarramendi) May 5, 2024
The expedition is led by Larramendicreator of the ‘wind sled’ with which he has already made several trips, and aims to demonstrate the changes in the polar landscape that he has already detected on his trips to the island in 2022 and 2023.
In this edition, the Spaniard aims to analyze deepen the orography of the regionlocate new findings in cartography and document the mountains that emerge with the melting of the ice.
It’s the first time that self-charging electric vehicles Sustainable transportation with a zero carbon footprint will be used on this expedition.
In addition to Larramendi, the Greenlanders Jens Jacob Simonsen, explorer captain and responsible for polar logistics, and Joorut Knudsen, farmer and explorer and specialist in glacial conditions, participate.
Spaniards Miguel Ángel Vidal, mountain guide and climber, and Juanma Sotillos, journalist and mountaineer, also participate.
The second expedition of this year, called ‘Sos Arctic Wind Sled 2024’It is scheduled to start in mid-May and will travel with the ‘wind sled’ 1,500 kilometers from south to north through the interior of Greenland, from Qaleralik to Upernavik, and will carry out various scientific investigations that will transport a mobile research laboratory to The polar areas are more inaccessible, according to those responsible in a statement.
In this second half of the 2024 expeditions, the team will be made up of scientists and explorers of different nationalities, including the Venezuelan climber Marcus Tobía, the Italians Roberto de Pieri (engineer specialized in renewable energies) and Enrico Gianoli (Greenland guide). , the Spanish climber and cameraman Felipe Ruiz, and Bo Kleffel, head of logistics.
In addition, two members of the Arctic Inuit people are part of the expedition, archaeologist Aka Simonsen and explorer Jens Jacob Simonsen, who will be in charge of polar logistics.
The 2024 expeditions have as ‘wind sleigh’ The most advanced ever built, 20 meters long and three meters wide, which will transport 3,000 kilos of material and with innovations in handling, habitability and resistance.
Source: Observadora
