28 photos - May 14, 2025
Being a volunteer

One day in late 2021, I came across an offer for a volunteer position as a second guide/logistician for a geophysics project in Greenland. Rather appealed, I applied and was finally given the position. In May 2022, after months of planning and appointments to complete drastic medial tests, I flew to Kangerlussuaq, in west Greenland. The ten first days I had to spend alone in a quarantine hotel. The next three weeks of the project happened on the cap ice, at 3000 meters above sea level, with the Summit Station as a home base. Kate, the Australian geophysicists who was leading the MAGPIE (Magnetotelluric analysis for Greenland and postglacial isostatic evolution) project, and Andreas, the Swedish safety and logistic guide, were the coworkers and friends I went through Heaven and Hell for several weeks. The people at Summit Station, and the station itself, were the warmest reward to come back to after driving over snow blocs and sleeping through storms in the extreme conditions of the highest iced land of Greenland. Here, Kate talks about the MAGPIE project. And you can read about it, there.

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