Nov
25
Posted by:
host
25/11/2010 14:03
Over the last years, we've met some of these scientists over in Tasiilaq. Talking to Georg, warming fjord tempatures have certainly been a growing problem for the local hunters in that there are now areas where it's only very rarely possible to travel by dogsled. Georg recounted that, at age 17, he used to drive his dogs out to hunt on the outer reaches of Ammassallik fjord, something never done nowadays.
Whilst we've had some bad ice years in the last ten, we've also had some great ones; the time Georg, Lars Bianco and I (Matt writing this time!), managed to take the icecap equipment and food over from Kulusuk to Tasiilaq by dogsled, one of the first of such trips in something like 15 years. On the East Coast, we're getting used to the unusual.