A 50-Hour Arctic First Ascent

August 22, 2023 345 view(s)

A 50-Hour Arctic First Ascent

Edelweiss Athletes Bronwyn Hodgins, Jacob Cook, and Angela Vanwiemeersch, along with friends Kelsey Watts, Jaron Pham, and Zach Goldberg-Poch took a trip to Greenland in August of 2022. For 65 days, they kayaked the west coast of Greenland and climbed granite cliffs rising out of the Arctic Ocean. This is a short film highlighting one of those climbs.

Routes featured in this film:

Time is a construct (5.11 A2 400m) first ascent by Bronwyn Hodgins, Kelsey Watts and Angela Vanwiemeersch in a 50-hour push, with one “shiver bivy,“ on August 1st and 2nd 2022.
Seagull’s Garden (5.11+ 400m) climbed by Jacob Cook, Jaron Pham and Zack Goldberg-Poch in a 28.5-hour push from camp to camp. The first ascent of this climb was by Nico Favresse and Ben Ditto in 2010.
Climbing and filming took place on Agparssuit, which roughly translates to “where the gulls stand in a row,” near Upernavik, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).