2007 Expedition to Dronning Louise Land

In 2007, three members of OVMRO, Russ Hore, Tim Radford and Gerwyn Lloyd, visited the most Northerly significant mountain range in Arctic North Eastern Greenland. The area is known as Dronning Louise Land and is approximately 90km East/West by 150km North/South. Only two other expeditions had visited the area: a combined British forces expedition in 1953 to the North, which travelled south to survey the area; and another in 2000 to the West side. The idea of the trip was first mooted in 2004 and the initial interest of nine people slowly dwindled to leave the three of us. What follows is a summary of the trip. The expedition planned to visit an area in the South East of Dronning Louise Land named The Fairytale Peaks by the 1953 expedition. They did not visit this area and thus said anything they recorded about them would be a fairy tale. We wanted to be dropped at approximately 76° 58’ 4”N / 25° 14’ 51”W. Unfortunately a crevassed ice field meant that the Ski Equipped Twin Otter could not land at the desired location and thus we were dropped approximately 33 miles away by ski on the edge of the icecap The compilers of this report and the members of the expedition agree that all or part of it may be copied for the purposes of private research.