Spanish Adventure in Greenland with a Sled Sailing

With the experience gained in previous expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic, the Spanish Ramón Larramendi polar explorer now has to turn around Greenland, on the inside, covering nearly 5,000 miles in a sleigh experimental candle that can be useful for scientific expeditions. The game is scheduled for May 5 and the complete circuit of the largest island of the Earth on board the vehicle sail will last about a month and a half. Larramendi Besides, integrate dispatch engineers and Eusebio Manuel Olivera Beamonte, Karin Moe Bojsen Danish and Greenlandic Hugo Svensson, supported in its logistical coordination from Spain Geologist and pilot Juan Manuel Viu. The cost of the adventure, with the support of the Spanish Geographical Society, amounting to 60,000 euros and all funding is private.

The sled sailing or catamaran snow, “is the only system in the world powered by renewable energy to go through the ice,” said Larramendi in Madrid, at the launch of the expedition in the Museum of the Royal Observatory of Madrid. And it is possible to demonstrate its utility vehicle as scientific surveys. In addition, the browser has been said, the challenge is both geographical and technological adventure, tuning and testing of the sleigh.

The wind sled, whose development began 15 years ago, is a sustainable vehicle, easy to use and economic research in the polar areas, says its developer, with extensive experience in polar exploration and collaborator of TV’s The Edge of the impossible. In 2005-2006 made a Trans-Antarctic Expedition, in which three people traveled 4,500 miles in 63 days by the white continent driven by an earlier version of the sleigh candle.

The sled is now used in Greenland is nine meters long and 2.80 wide, and consists of three modules: the engine going forward from the pilot that the load and habitability in the end, in whose shop campaign will rest the crew. Weighs 500 kilos and total drag 1,800. Kites can fly over 500 meters distances. With this vehicle, built largely of wood and applying traditional knowledge of the Inuit peoples of the Arctic for their sleds, easy repair on the fly when defective, expect access to about 15 miles per hour or less and have a 25 % of time will be dead calm, ie, immobility due to lack of wind, explains Larramendi.

“The approach is so different from what is commonly used in scientific polar exploration… What we are doing is to develop and demonstrate the usefulness, feasibility and safety of this vehicle,” argues Larramendi when asked why not follow this path ” small cost and high efficiency ” other teams in other countries.

Greenland will be carried aboard a weather station and a mobile laboratory to develop two research projects in collaboration with raised Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE), CSIC, Juan Ignacio Lopez Moreno as principal investigator. The expedition recorded data of temperature and relative humidity every hour throughout the tour. They also want to characterize the control of snow water content. A third project is proposed to measure the radioactive trace in parts of Greenland where there were military installations.

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