{"id":25870,"date":"2025-09-05T00:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/avontuur-op-groenlandse-ijskap-navigeren-door-white-out\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:44:36","slug":"avontuur-op-groenlandse-ijskap-navigeren-door-white-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/avontuur-op-groenlandse-ijskap-navigeren-door-white-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure on the Greenland Ice Sheet: Navigating through White-Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='flex_column av-1gwz1si-ecd8bedfb95d85ee6996109298e61835 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mc64ztu3-846d675314f13359fca42c4201ff35aa '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><h2>Listen to the Expedition Greenland Update<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25870-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/audio-blog-4.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/audio-blog-4.mp3\">https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/audio-blog-4.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/onderwerpen\/greenland-2025\/\">Read all blogs in English.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/expeditions-overview\/groenland-expeditie-2025\/\">Our live position in Greenland.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udce2 <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/expeditions-overview\/groenland-expeditie-2025\/\">Read all previous messages.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1bmxhhu-f5224d651b560eb192fac74ab38ea33f\">\n.flex_column.av-1bmxhhu-f5224d651b560eb192fac74ab38ea33f{\nborder-radius:3px 3px 3px 3px;\npadding:10px 10px 10px 10px;\nbackground-color:#f2f2f2;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1bmxhhu-f5224d651b560eb192fac74ab38ea33f av_one_half  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_hr  flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mc64zgdb-764a03b10f56dacf5f241b503f2c1109 '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><h2>Sign up for the Expedition Newsflash.<\/h2>\n<p>Receive alerts of new blog posts in your email during the expedition.<\/p>\n                <div class=\"ml-embedded\" data-form=\"AWqNqu\"><\/div>\n            \n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n<div  class='hr av-s1j460-8b84e45465358f2aa3aef05aedecf6b4 hr-default  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_one_full '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-rnnpki-558c6bf59fdaafc19ab18598bf38c424 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mc64ytx1-f782ba5f3613bbe73186e5a4eaf44b03 '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><h2>A Challenging Day on the Greenland Ice Sheet<\/h2>\n<p>It all started this morning at 6:11. After a reasonable night, we were ready to set off, but as has been common in recent days, we faced a white-out. The low-hanging clouds made the difference between visibility and no visibility just a few meters. We had to make our way through deep snow, which made pulling the sled a tough task. It felt like sandpaper was attached under the sled, and I could only think of dragging a sack of potatoes behind me. Sometimes there were patches of blown-away snow, allowing us to ski for a bit, but most of the time it was a struggle. I estimate that about half a meter of snow has fallen in recent days. After about an hour, we reached an area with frozen snow and even a small stream running to our right. This was unexpected at this altitude and so late in the season, but the stream followed our direction, so we left it on our right. During the second shift, I was in the lead and saw something blue in the distance. It turned out to be a wide river crossing our route. Crossing the river was irresponsible, so we decided to follow it downstream in the hope that it would end. After about half an hour of walking, we came to a small creek that flowed into the large river. We found a snow or ice bridge where the water was thicker frozen and were able to cross the creek. However, the large river followed a different direction than we needed to go. After about 2 kilometers, the river suddenly disappeared into a moulin, a large hole in the ice where the water plunged down. This moulin was impressively large; if you had sailed on it with a pleasure boat, it would have completely disappeared. It&#8217;s unheard of to have rivers at this altitude so late in the season. After this ice waterfall, we were fortunately able to reasonably follow our old course again. However, the wind had shifted from southwest to northeast and was getting stronger, making navigation extra challenging. Despite the fresh snow and the wind, we covered 22 kilometers today, bringing our total to 459 kilometers. All in all, it was a tough day, and although Point 660 still seems far away, we keep persevering. We&#8217;ll see what tomorrow brings.                      <\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An adventurous day on the Greenland ice sheet involved challenging navigation through white-out and unexpected rivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[311,498],"tags":[307,486],"class_list":["post-25870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","category-greenland-2025","tag-expedition","tag-greenland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}