John Starbuck was in Greenland in Spring 2013. A 3 hour flight in a small twin engined Otter from Iceland and across the partly frozen North Atlantic took him and fellow expeditioners to the East coast of Greenland. A 12 hour snowmobile journey was made from the coast to the foot of the Oxford glacier.. The valley and glacier were ascended on skis, towing pulks, to establish a base camp. Conditions were extremely cold and waist deep powder snow made the going very arduous. Very high avalanche risk conditions prevailed above the base camp, seriously curtailing climbing opportunities. A couple of technically easy first ascents were made, mainly on skis and then the last few hundred feet floundering up waist deep powder snow.
More details and video of the expedition is on the Member's Exploits page.
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