{"id":28392,"date":"2026-04-29T05:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/start-van-onze-arctische-expeditie-in-kangerlussuaq\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:49:32","slug":"start-van-onze-arctische-expeditie-in-kangerlussuaq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/start-van-onze-arctische-expeditie-in-kangerlussuaq\/","title":{"rendered":"Start of our Arctic expedition in Kangerlussuaq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1gwz1si-65b00dbab9504b8c861c7b322dfe2eba\">\n.flex_column.av-1gwz1si-65b00dbab9504b8c861c7b322dfe2eba{\npadding:0 20px 0 0;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1gwz1si-65b00dbab9504b8c861c7b322dfe2eba 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-ecb9863e6085779f3701ce94be0d98ca '  ><div class='avia_textblock' ><h2>Listen to the Greenland Expedition Update<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-28392-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/audio-blog-4.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/audio-blog-4.mp3\">https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/audio-blog-4.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/onderwerpen\/greenland-spring-2026\/\">Read all blogs in English.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/expeditions-overview\/groenland-expeditie-voorjaar-2026\/\">Our live position in Greenland.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udce2 <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticadventure.nl\/en\/expeditions-overview\/groenland-expeditie-voorjaar-2026\/\">Read all previous posts.<\/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 blogs in your email during the expedition.<\/p>\n                <div class=\"ml-embedded\" data-form=\"HO1phZ\"><\/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>First meeting and flight to Kangerlussuaq<\/h2>\n<p>Hi everyone, it&#8217;s so cool that you&#8217;re listening to our blog. This is our first update from Greenland. Henk-Jan has already shared some details about our preparations back in the Netherlands. This morning, the whole team flew from Copenhagen to Kangerlussuaq. It&#8217;s a great international team with a Brit, Neil, two Danes, Malene and Christian, and two Dutchies, Jasmijn and me. It was a bit strange to meet each other in person for the first time at the airport, especially when you&#8217;re about to embark on such a big journey together. But given the international mix of our group, it was actually impossible to meet in person any sooner. It&#8217;s really nice to see that everyone is super enthusiastic and that we had a great vibe right away.       <\/p>\n<h2>First impression of the ice sheet<\/h2>\n<p>From the plane, we were able to see the ice sheet for the first time on the east side of Greenland, where it wasn&#8217;t cloudy. It&#8217;s truly indescribable. The glaciers and the crevasses were quite visible on that side. Once you pass that area of crevasses from the side, all you see is one vast, stretching white plain. We flew over it for at least another forty-five minutes. You look down and think: we&#8217;re going to walk here. We&#8217;re going to ski across this for 30 days, in the middle of nowhere.      <\/p>\n<h2>Other expeditions and start date<\/h2>\n<p>As it turns out, we&#8217;re not the only ones doing this. There were no fewer than three other expeditions on the plane, and everyone is starting on May 1st. So we&#8217;ll have to see how that goes. On one hand, it&#8217;s nice to know there are other people nearby. But on the other hand, we&#8217;re also here for the solitude and the vast wilderness. I think it&#8217;ll be fine, though, because every expedition follows its own plan and roughly its own route. Everyone has a different pace. We won&#8217;t be tripping over each other, hopefully.       <\/p>\n<h2>Hassle with boxes and logistics<\/h2>\n<p>The start was also a bit &#8216;Greenland style.&#8217; After being picked up by our logistics partner Chris, it turned out that the boxes sent ahead\u2014which were confirmed to be here\u2014weren&#8217;t that easy to find. There were four boxes here in this building and three more in that room. I said: &#8216;Well Chris, we&#8217;re still three short.&#8217; He had to scratch his head for a bit and eventually said: &#8216;Wait, maybe there are more over there.&#8217; We went to another building, and lo and behold, there were the three missing boxes. So, all&#8217;s well that ends well.      <\/p>\n<h2>Unexpected hotel change<\/h2>\n<p>After that, we thought: okay, now we&#8217;re heading to our hotel. But that wasn&#8217;t the case at all. Our hotel has actually been taken over by the military. Chris had to put us up somewhere else. We ended up with a similar location, and actually, it&#8217;s even a little bit better. We were supposed to have three rooms in the first hotel, and now we have five rooms in this one. That means we each have our own room, which is quite nice considering the prospect of sharing a tent for a month.      <\/p>\n<h2>Preparations and the first day<\/h2>\n<p>After we arrived, we got straight to work. Today we unpacked all the boxes and sorted our food. That was a job that took about two and a half hours. First, we took all the food out of eight of the boxes and sorted it neatly. Then, list in hand, we each filled thirty daily bags with breakfast, a snack, an evening meal, Haribo bears, a bag of chips, coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. There&#8217;s all sorts of stuff in there. After that, we were pretty much done. A few more things needed to be bought, but it was a long and busy first day, also with a three-hour time difference. It&#8217;s three hours earlier here than in the Netherlands. 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