JOURNEYS In the footsteps of Nansen’s traverse of the Greenland Ice Sheet
ALAMY/AWL/BRIDGEMANIcebergs and pack ice
were among the obstacles
Nansen’s expedition faced
when rowing to shore
before beginning their
cross-Greenland trekColourful houses line the shore
at Nuuk (formerly Godthaab)
on Greenland’s west coast,
where the expedition ended on
3 October 1888, 11 weeks after
disembarking from the JasonA 19 th- centur y illustr ation of an
Inuit dwelling in Greenland.
Nansen and his men were aided by
Inuits they met on both coasts