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 Our Inuit adventure «Listening to the people of Greenland” started in June 2009.

Having covered a very large part of the west coast of Greenland by kayak, we arrive at a total distance travelled of 3 553 km as at last September.

We met the people from around 50 communities and carried out about the same number of interviews.

Winter put an end to our travels, and now  we are at a latitude of 74°06’N in the small village of Nuussuaq (190 inhabitants).

In the course of April, we should move on and  cross Melville bay (ice pack more than 350 km long) on a dog sled, along with the local hunters .In this way, we will be able to reach one week later, the small village of Savissivik by 76 ° 01 ' N (a village with 66 inhabitants). There, we will wait for the ice to clear and for the first boat of the Royal Arctic Line which will deliver, on July 15th, our two kayaks and our navigation equipment.

Then, we should pass the mythical Cape York by sea in order to reach, almost a  thousand kilometers farther, the northernmost  communities of north Greenland, and the Inuit Etah camp at a latitude of 78°19 N, which is as far north as we intend to go. Etah has no infrastructure, and so we will have to come back the same way and to end the trip either at Siorapaluk (77°47’ N), or at the larger city of Qaannaq ( 77°28 'N) (600 inhabitants).This will be the end of this part of the project, and all of our equipment will stay there, to be ready for the continuation of our  adventure in Greenland.

In 2012, the starting point of the fourth part of our project will be the little village of Savissivik.

Savissivik happens to be the place where the first Inuits were discovered on  Aug. 9, 1818 by Captain John Ross, during his expedition sponsored by the Royal Navy. Until then, these people living at the end of the world thought they were alone on the planet!

The technical difficulties of this new expedition should be encountered at the start of the voyage. The ice is still very much present at this time of the year. We will have to pass Cape York, and travel 350km before being able to replenish our supplies at Qaanaaq.

The artic summer being very short, we will have only six weeks of possible navigation, but at these latitudes and at that time of year, the sun will be shining 24 hours a day!