It’s only taken me about six years, but I’ve discovered how to upload video to my blog. And if you’ve got four minutes, and you want to see how far I came after the stop start at the beginning of my sledging “career”, then this is that video, on this day in 2009, two years after Monday’s blog.
I was very happy and I was very cold. It was about -35 Celsius. A bit of wind, and some shadow on the other side of the fjord. Which is when I decided we should turn around. The dogs were fine. Me… freezing! Which is why there might be a single expletive in the video. 😉
Chris
“Yeep! Yeep! Yeep! No potty break for you, Nansen!” So is ‘YEEP’ the Greenlandic translation of ‘Mush!’ or ‘Giddyup!’?? 🧐
What do you call that long but narrow fissure in the ice that you sledged right over? You’ve mention it many times in your books, but I’ve forgotten it. (Possibly because I don’t encounter those in my neighborhood very often)
And when you turned the camera on yourself, I saw the little ‘gloves of frost’ on your eyelashes and hair tips that you love to describe when a character is out in the cold! Visual substantiation!
And no one else out on the ice as far as the eye can see! Man Against Nature! Impressive! 👍🏻
Yes, but I think “Yeep! Yeep! Yeep!” is probably a western interpretation of what the Greenlanders do when saying mush. Can’t say how authentic it is, but I tried! 😉 And I think the word you’re looking for is “lead”. The one I crossed was a tiddler. And of course there’s a reason I have to include those frosty gloves in my stories. Now you can see why. 😉
‘LEADS’ – yes – that’s the word I couldn’t remember, I guess because in my mind it has NO obvious relation to ‘a long fissure in the ice’! 😊. Now every time I read about Petra’s hair ends covered by little ‘gloves of ice’, I’ll picture your frosty beard and eyelashes. Thanks . . I think! 😄
Yeah, not sure you want to picture my face when thinking of Petra. 😉