East Greenland: One Wild Ride

Jennie Lay Oct 2, 2019

Big ice. Big mountains. Big whales.

Everything about Greenland is enormous.

On the ground in East Greenland, a sense of awe bowled us over with each encounter, every single day. We counted our infinite blessings to have feet planted on that remote, ice-bound island.

By the time we had the good fortune to board a helicopter at Nat Hab’s Base Camp Greenland to soar up and over such a vast pristine wilderness…well…as you’ll see and hear in this video, all we could do was laugh and cry and blubber our terms of endearment.

Enjoy the ride!

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