Expeditie

Got the opportunity to join the Dutch Historical Expedition Foundation in their Jan Mayen Beerenberg Expeditie 97.

Their mission was to climb a "Dutch volcano". I spent two beautiful days together with this pleasant group. After a while I could even understand a little Dutch to.

Was invited to write an article for Volcanoworld:   - An expedition to Beerenberg.

The article is long, this is a short summary:

We started from the old meteorological station in low clouds, but broke through them already at 600 meters height, into beautiful weather. We established a camp at 800 meters and climbed Beerenberg in the night.

We skied to a cliff called Nunataken at 1500 meters. After that we met lots of crevasses, and each of us fell through at least once. We reached the crater rim in midnight sun, in a beautiful light.

We returned to the tent, slept during the day, and skied down in the afternoon. Koos fell when skiing through the fog and hurt his anklet. He forced himself to walk three kilometres to our pick-up point. It turned out that the anklet was broken and he got six unpleasant days sailing back to Bergen in Norway.

Thanks to Ton, Koos, Roland and their captain, Eerde.