ARCTIC PEAK CLIMBED
British Party In Greenland (N.Z.P. A.-Reuter —Copyright) REYKJAVIK, Aug. 25. Four Britons have braved drifting pack-ice and an attack by a polar bear to conquer the highest unsealed peak in the Arctic—-the 10,700 ft Mikkelsen’s Fjeld, in Greenland. A message has been received in Iceland from the four members of the British 1970 East Greenland expedition saying they are now o.i their way back to the Arctic settlement of Scoresbysund. The members of the party are Andrew Ross, Graham Williams, Nigel Robinson and Peter Lewis. Mikkelsen’s Fjeld has only been seen from the land twice before—when it was first sighted in 1932, and by an expedition last year that was forced to retreat by bad weather. The 250-mile voyage that the expedition is making from Scoresbysund to the mountain and back will be the longest open-boat journey ever made in the Arctic.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32386, 27 August 1970, Page 19
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