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Photo: Anders Brenna<\/p>\n
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Norwegian Anders Brenna is further south and five weeks into a slow and severely shortened journey. He planned to ski 1,100km from Gjoa Haven to Glenelg Bay on northern Victoria Island, but slow progress forced Brenna to head to Cambridge Bay instead, reducing his route to 400km. Brenna is currently halfway across the flattest land in that part of the High Arctic \u2014 Jenny Lin Island.<\/p>\n
Devon Island<\/p>\n
At the end of last week, Jose Naranjo of Spain and Ingrid Ortlieb of Germany completed a sled expedition on the Devon Ice Cap. Devon Island is the largest uninhabited island in the world and sits between Baffin Island and Ellesmere. Naranjo and Ortlieb were dropped off by snowmobile at the head of the Sverdrup Glacier after crossing frozen Jones Sound.<\/p>\n
From there, the pair skied across part of the ice cap, descended an unnamed glacier on the southeastern coast, then skied back to the western edge of the ice cap across the large central plateau. Finally, they returned to their starting point and went back down to sea ice, again using the ramp of the Sverdrup Glacier. In 30 days, they covered around 300km.<\/p>\n
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Ingrid Ortlieb, left, and Jose Naranjo on Devon Island. Photo: Ingrid Ortlieb<\/p>\n
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Baffin Island
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Photo: Ben James<\/p>\n
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Britons Tom Harding, Ben James, Leanne Dyke, and James Hoyes have completed their ski and climbing expedition. They skied around 100km to access the mountains east of Akshayuk Pass after being dropped at the Weasel River Valley. The trio report making seven possible first ascents, to be confirmed later.<\/p>\n
Greenland<\/p>\n
After one of the four kite skiers was evacuated with a knee injury on April 29, Camila Ringold\u2019s team has continued north past the 70th parallel on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Whiteouts have slowed progress, and too-strong winds prevented safe kiting on some days. Their goal is a 2,000km crossing from Kangerlussuaq to Qaanaaq.<\/p>\n
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The injured kite skier is evacuated. Photo: Camila Ringold<\/p>\n
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Again, there is no news on Japanese Arctic traveler Yasu Ogita, who last updated in mid-April from Qaanaaq. Ogita was awaiting a helicopter ride to Siorapaluk, from which he will ski 400km to the Cape Inglefield region and back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, expeditions finished in northern Quebec and the Northwest Territories. The remaining action focuses on Ellesmere Island,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[3942,70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-75643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-arctic","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114453530906500534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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