Taken by Al Read, Russ aproaching the summit of RHARPeak on our 1998 Arctic eastern Greenland expedition. To get to the far ridge on the left took a whole days skiing/hauling pulks.

Lame name for a peak (S09) but this was our ninth summit. The temperature was dropping rapidly. We later were caught in a storm on the glacier in the background for three days. We resorted to reading the GPS manual after passsing round all the books we had. Have a look at another of my photos "Russ attempting unnamed peak" and this peak is the one in the middle distance in that shot (if you see what I mean)

The peak in the background we called S09 (Our ninth summit). As we attempted this next peak, the temperature plummeted so we aborted soon after this shot. The next day we moved down on to the glacier in the background and sat out a storm for three days.

Me - I got the last pitch on this first ascent. As I pulled up the last few feet I saw sky, peaks, glacier and a steep slope the other side of the route. A fantastic day. Photo taken by Al Read

Al Read on RHARPeak (Our name) summit (~2200m). The small speck on the glacier below is our tents in a walled enclosure about 1000m below us. We could hear members of the party talking down on the glacier such is the silence.All the peaks in the background are unclimbed but a good hours ski across the glacier.

In 1998 we were lucky enough to visit an unexplored area of Arctic Eastern Greenland called Rignys Bjerg. This was our third camp after three days of storm during which we resorted to reading the GPS manual. The cliffs in the background are a good three hours skiing away. We found it very difficult to estimate scale in Greenland leading to some long days skiing.

Back in 1998 we were lucky enough to be the first visitors to this part of Greenland (Rignys Bjerg). Just behing our first camp we noticed a superb snow gully. Like most things in Greenland we underestimated the size and ended up with a 10 pitch Grade 3 (Scottish). As we climbed we were watched by 2 Snow Falcons, hence the name.