01/09/2026
Greenland expedition 🇬🇱🧗 3 : the wall
The weather window finally arrived! We jumped on the boat and moved our base camp to another fjord, between giant needles dropping straight into the water, and a 600m-high blade of steep orange granite. There it was! 🤩
The guys started the ascent in the morning, cruising on the lower part of the wall until a big grassy ledge, to continue with some poorly protected, hard slab pitches - a treat for Jernej 😄 Day two offered another nice runout and a crazy aid pitch for Filippo, and more climbing until long after the sun set behind the mountains across the fjord 😴
We slept on the ledge, which was definitely the most amazing camping spot I've ever had! A comfy night, high above the clouds rolling in from the ocean. Jumaring on half ropes wasn't exactly a fun thing to do right after breakfast, but it had to be done 😅
Silvan led most of the the third day, pushing all the way to the top, following steep cracks and dihedrals, with a couple of sketchy, dirty pitches. We reached the summit in the early evening, enjoying the incredible views all around, the arctic sun casting beautiful shadows in the fjord far below 😍
600m of abseils and a walk in the dark later, we were at base base camp, tired, happy and grateful for this first ascent 🙏
Silvan Schüpbach Filippo sala Jernej Kruder
LYOFOOD Karpos Mammut