12 days of field food
Our captain Melik told us a polar bear had recently eaten one of his horses, didn't leave, so he had to put it down.
Tasermiut was shy at first
Melik dropped us on a cliff at the mouth of Tasermiut.
Beautiful mountains flank lush valleys
We stayed in Stordalens havn for two nights
Huge garnets in a boulder from the older metamorphic rocks that the rapakivi intruded
We tried to find a shortcut to the next valley over a glacier. The glacier had retreated from when the map was drawn and approach was tough.
Locals came to greet us
Evening walk to a rapakivi outcrop by the fjord
Rapakivi in close quarters with more mafic igneous rock with out-of place K-feldspars
Rapakivi sunset
Rapakivi means weathering stone. Demonstrated here.
On the other hand, rapakivi granite can be extremely resistant to weathering, forming these insane walls around Tasermiut
Rose quartz boulder
Conglomerate boulder from the surrounding (meta)sedimentary bedrock.
Uula and Aarne having a break in the sun
One of Greenland's many waning glaciers
Recently recessed glacier has left behind polished surfaces of rapakivi granite
Feldspar ovoids in mafic matrix
Double xenolith
Submeter scale felsic-mafic mingling textures
Nalumasortoq, a castle in the sky
Ulamertorsuaq – the most beautiful mountain in Tasermiut and therefore, the most beautiful mountain in the world
Kirkespiret sunset
Complex rapakivi composite dyke in a metapsammite
Klosterdalen, a site of a viking monastery ruin. Sermeq and inland ice sheet looming far away.
Uula having a break. The Ketil wall in the background with its over 1 km of vertical rapakivi granite
Metapsammite xenolith block in rapakivi
We had a camp below the Sermitsiaq glacier. Its former extent can be traced on the mountain walls.
Low fjord haze in cold mornings means late starts for most days
Sermeq does not reach the sea anymore, so no more icebergs in Tasermiut.
I would hesitate to climb to the Greenland ice sheet from here.
Newly exposed ultramafic dyke cutting rapakivi granite