Brits in Greenland - Hard New Big Walls

26th August, 2008

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The British team of Es Tresidder, Tony Stone, James Vybiral, Dan McManus, Tom Spreyer and Ged Desforges with Bavarian climber, Ruben Gutzat, travelled to Greenland's Tasermiut Fjord from July 16 to August 13, 2008. Encountering excellent weather, the group climbed several new, all-free lines on the granite big-walls, in what has been described as "the most successful expedition to the unnamed valley south of Sermitsiaq in over three decades." by Alpinist Magazine.

Es Tresidder gives us the full low down (with superb photography) in this UKC article:

UKC British Tasermiut Fjord Expedition Report

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SonyaD

26 Aug, 2008

Wow! That looks amazing and such brilliant luck with the weather! Well done.

Dan Bailey - UKHillwalking.com

26 Aug, 2008

Nice one Es and co

EsT

26 Aug, 2008

Cheers Jack. More pics and spray on mine and Dans routes on my website for anyone interested: www.es-on-ice.co.uk Cheers, Es.

RossJ

27 Aug, 2008

Glad you had a great time and hit luckily with the weather. The lines look excellent. When we were out there in 2003 we hit the only good weather window of the summer when we spent just over 3 weeks in the Torssukataq Spires area. The weather the month before had been pretty much constant rain and saw the party we meet at Nanortalik bothy spend pretty much the whole time at their base camp. Fortunately they stayed on and got the three weeks of good weather at Tasermiut Fjord for the period we were out. Must write up our routes sometime. What were the black fly like at base camp?

Franco Cookson OLD

27 Aug, 2008

I gotta get me there. Good effort lads.

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