Youngsters on their first trek

Sébastien Lapierre (left) and Olivier Giasson at Reykjavik airport before leaving for Groenland.

Sébastien Lapierre (left) and Olivier Giasson at Reykjavik airport before leaving for Groenland.

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  • Sébastien Lapierre (left) and Olivier Giasson at Reykjavik airport before leaving for Groenland.
  • A view of fjord Sermilik through which we had to make our progression.
  • Hard to progress through the
  • Olivier going up slowly against the wind.
  • Sebastien at the end of the day when the sledge is getting heavier and heavier every single minute of the afternoon.
  • A very veyr cold night on the glacier.
  • Sunset on the inlandsis.
  • Our camp on the fjord Johan-Petersen. The progression through the pack is quite difficult and we loose much time.
  • We feel quite lonely on the glacier.
  • Our daily landscape from the beginning of the trek until the end.
  • A view of our camp : every day it was the same procedure to set it up.
  • Olivier pausing for a short break of 10 minutes every two hours or so.
  • Olivier at work, making, some repair for our material.
  • Of course we have had few light frosbites on our toes.
  • View towards the fjors when we were on our ascent to the Greenland plateau.
  • Olivier has to face the piterak.
  • Sébastian during a quite hot day.
  • Lapierre et Giasson thanking their sponsors.

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