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 Tomorrow, I'll fly with the 190th Airlift Wing of the New
York National Guard to Kangerlussuaq, a small town on the
western coast of Greenland.
For weeks I've been getting all my gear ready for the trip.
I'm bringing video and still cameras, audio recording equipment,
and a laptop computer. I also have cold weather-gear for the
ice sheet and a mosquito suit for the coast.
From Kangerlussuaq I'll fly to the North Greenland Ice Project,
a Danish research site on the Greenland ice sheet, about 10,000
feet above sea level. For the last 8 years a team of Danish
scientists have been drilling through the ice. The drill is
at historic depths and will soon hit the bottom of the massive
Greenland ice sheet -- possibly while I'm there.
After visiting NGRIP, I'll travel to eastern Greenland,
where I'll meet a lemming researcher, and visit a Danish ecological
research station. I will also visit an Inuit village and the
headquarters of the Sirius Sledge Patrol, the Danish police
force that patrols Greenland's North Eastern National Park
by dog sled. Finally, I'm off to Iceland, where archaeologists
are unearthing the remains of a Viking farmhouse.
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The flight of the LC-130
The LC-130 cargo plane is one of the largest
propeller military cargo planes in flight.
See pictures from Dan's experiences on the
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