Filming Begins

This morning the team walked to Reykjavik airport and were met by Fire leader Dr. Takako Takano who was accompanied by a Japanese film crew who are filming a documentary on her personal achievements which will be released later this year in Japanese (and in English in the middle of next year).

During the flight from Iceland to Narsarsuaq in Greenland we were treated to a fantastic view across the vast ice cap and mountainous fjords that flow from it. After landing we transferred to boat that would whisk us on our 5 hour journey along the southern coast of Greenland. During the journey we were treated to a fantastic array of different size and shape of icebergs that had drifted back in towards the coast, but the highlight of the day was the sighting of a humpback whale, not bad for day two of our expedition!

After unloading the boat at Nanortalik and moving into our temporary lodgings several explorers were despatched to buy food and rustle up dinner, which was served in the glorious evening sun.
After years of planning from the exped leaders, the advance party has finally arrived in Greenland with a huge sigh of relief, however there is still a lot of work to be done and it will begin in earnest tomorrow.

......... on behalf of the advance party and the rest of the expedition, we would all like to say a huge thank you to the unsung heroes of BSES, Patrick (see photo), Dot, Jamie and Will who have the unenviable task of chasing paperwork, booking flights, dealing with everyone of our personal issues and 101 other issues that we luckily don’t have to get involved in, but don’t actually come along on the exped!