Getting about in the hills on foot and by cycle.

A visit made with others to this area on the edge of the Arctic Circle when in my twenties. We travelled by scheduled flight from Glasgow to Keflavic in Iceland and then by bus into Reykjavik and later on a flight in an old Dakota to the Danish base at Mestersvig. Our first camp a short distance from the base. The wee hut or Fangsyte is used by folks as a hunting stop-over. The folks from Munich to whom we lent the orange tent after some of their kit was lost. I think that the water is King Oscar fjord. Who needs a tent in settled weather the wood, washed up along the fjord side, probably originated from the great Soviet Union rivers that empty into the Arctic sea. There don't appear to be trees in Greenland. GT kitted up to head up to the glacier Resting during the walk in ….one member plus the most of the kit went in by rubber boat with a small outboard motor. Our base close to the outflow from Gully Glacier. The Welsh folks in the a