It turns out that Narsaq is a mecca for geology buffs (pick me! pick me! I was actually very tempted to study Geology rather than Astronomy at University) so I was super-excited about hiking to Kvanefjeld to search for Tugtupit (also known as “Reindeer stone”) – a rare mineral only found in a few places in the …
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I slept incredibly well at the Hotel Narsaq, and awoke to a wonderful breakfast of bread, cheese, meat, eggs (with extras packed away for lunch), cereal, tea and coffee at the hotel. Blue Ice Explorer had described 4 hikes from Narsaq and so I decided to set out early to see if I could fit 3 …
After 25 years of waiting to visit, I seemed determined not to make it to Greenland! For the second time in as many days, my brain was an hour out on timing and I went very, very close to missing my flight from Iceland to Greenland! The first occasion was in Tehran, where I was …
