Amelia Russell and Dan Darley contacted Pirhuk over a year ago looking for some specific arctic polar training.  Together with Matt Spenceley, they started out in Finse, Norway and then headed for the sea ice of East Greenland.

Their main focus is now on their big trip, for which they'll be leaving in February '10: an unsupported ski journey from Canada to the Geographic North Pole.  We wish them the very best of luck.

Progress can be followed on their website.

 Chamonix-based IFMGA  guide Neil McNab's outfit, McNab Snowboarding, run a programme of dedicated freeride courses as well as 'backcountry' trips to some of the most exciting destinations around the world.

In '08, Pirhuk put together the details for Neil and a team to head out to a glaciated island on the East Coast of Greenland.

In August 2008, Patrick Peters (from Luxembourg) and Pirhuk guide Matt Spenceley made a coast-to-coast, kite-assisted crossing of the Greenland Icecap.  Starting in Nagtivit fjord on the east coast and finishing in Eqi Sermia 17.5 days later, they encountered variable winds and some testing conditions - rough ice, crevasses and meltwater - in the coastal regions.

Patrick has just completed a book covering......

Every autumn, before heading out onto Greenland’s Inland Ice the following spring, the Pirhuk icecap crossing teams get together to train and run through the details of the coming months.  This year we reckoned on the Lakes, N. England to offer some good training and beautiful scenery.  The storms and subsequent flooding that have hit the region in the past 2 weeks even made the news in Switzerland so it was with a bit of trepidation that we set off.  The drive to Borrowdale ended up going fairly smoothly, with one long diversion in place to by-pass a bridge damaged by the high water.  The floods must have been fearsome to experience.

We've set up a new news service in the form of a blog as an easy place for you to check out general Greenland expedition news as well as more specific stuff like late availability on expeditions and special projects that we've got in the pipeline.  We hope you'll find it useful!

The Pirhuk team