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Hi All,

Another Duploworld upgrade and part VI of my summer adventure.
the "dead glacier"

After a mildely put adventurous day on the ice cap itself we got up real early that morning.
Weather was blistering cold, with the occational showers of iced rain and the sun just peaking over the glacier through a thin white carpet of clouds.
We packed down the camp around 0600 hrs and got ready for our trip towards the dead glacier.
by the foot of the glacier

Now the glacier is not dead, just almost inactive. It is one of the few glaciers in the world where you are allowed to actually walk all the way up to the glacier face and touch the front wall of the glacier.
It was another of those experiences I will never ever forget, walking only inches off the glacier face was "out of this world", a very humbling experience.
Pressure fissures

Standing just beneath it learned about the nature of this glacier and its very unique features.
Glaciers normally is pressured from one direction, this glacier has its unique look because it is pressured from 3 directions and thus have pressure fissures in 3 directions. According to the experts that should not be possible, but luckily nobody has cared to tell this particular glacier about it why it will continue to be one of natures odd wonders.
leaving the glacier

As we left the glacier and headed back towards the camp to pick up our bags. I turned around and was graced with the glacier flooded in the early morning light. It was amazing, but a long and rough hike awaited us and with the pressure of a boat to catch over our heads we set a fast pace.
I think we were all pretty baffled and had taken in so many experiences in such a short time that only now, more than a month after I am slowly beginning to understand the experiences we had during these days.
Back to Eqi

We made good progress on the hike and arived back just in time to grab a quick lunch and for me to get a shot of the boat as it sailed along the glacier wall. I think that if you click HERE you will inderstand just how large the glacier really is.
Now from here it was another 5 hours by boat back to Ilulissat. A beautiful trip, mostly because I knew miss Duplo would be waiting at the harbour but also because it marked the return to the icefiord and the beautiful icebergs residing there.
Majestic coloumns of ice

Now that is all for now, next up is "Part VII - sled dogs and icebergs revisited"
Thanks for following my adventure and for liking the trip so far.

Do take care you all

Thomas