Greenland: Praestefjorden to Nuuk
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 88.18 mi
- Elevation gain
- 10,466 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Very difficult
- Elevation loss
- 10,410 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,582 ft
- TrailRank
- 29
- Min elevation
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- Trail type
- One Way
- Coordinates
- 377
- Uploaded
- August 30, 2017
- Recorded
- August 2017
near Qarajat, Sermersooq (Grenlandia)
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Itinerary description
This is a bushwhack. There is no trail. The trek took 7.5 days and is roughly 90-100 miles depending on how often you reroute. The terrain is quite varied and never easy going. The tussocks and bogs cover roughly 50% of the trek and make walking laborious. We are two ultramarathoners that did this and were only able to average 1.5 mph. The trek is certainly doable, but progress is slow. Navigation is easy though given that there are no trees (so long as you don't have fog).
Water is everywhere and very clean. Building fires is easy though good fuel is scarce so burn peat wherever you can find it. Temperatures were almost unbearable in the sun-- set up camp in the shade else you will cook in your tent since the sun doesn't set. Once a snowstorm rolled in though it got really cold.
You will need to take a boat from Nuuk to Praestefjorden: it is a 30 min ride and costs roughly $250 if you use Kang Tourism ApS. You must take the boat again (call them on satellite phone) to cross the fjord roughly 40 miles in. The Kussuaq River (grey river to the east flowing from the ice cap) cannot be crossed on foot. The locals advised strongly against it. Once you get to C07 on the map you can follow a very primitive trail that appears and disappears until you get to Nuuk.
Doing it again I would start in Kapisillit instead and walk to Nuuk.
Water is everywhere and very clean. Building fires is easy though good fuel is scarce so burn peat wherever you can find it. Temperatures were almost unbearable in the sun-- set up camp in the shade else you will cook in your tent since the sun doesn't set. Once a snowstorm rolled in though it got really cold.
You will need to take a boat from Nuuk to Praestefjorden: it is a 30 min ride and costs roughly $250 if you use Kang Tourism ApS. You must take the boat again (call them on satellite phone) to cross the fjord roughly 40 miles in. The Kussuaq River (grey river to the east flowing from the ice cap) cannot be crossed on foot. The locals advised strongly against it. Once you get to C07 on the map you can follow a very primitive trail that appears and disappears until you get to Nuuk.
Doing it again I would start in Kapisillit instead and walk to Nuuk.
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