29/06/2025
from 🟠Petzl 🇫🇷: Brimming with energy, driven by big dreams and an appetite for exploration — meet
Greenland 2024 - Exploratory Expedition to Waking Dream
Thirty-five days self-supported, 450km by kayak, 35 pitches on a 1200-meter virgin wall.
During the summer of 2024, Matteo, Silvan, Alex, and I dipped our paddles into the icy waters of Greenland. The objective was simple: to reach a remote fjord by fair means, and attempt to open a route on a 1200-meter untouched face on Drøneren Mountain.
Thirty-five days off the grid. Completely self-reliant. Storms, polar bears, soaking wet bivouacs. Navigating between icebergs, waiting in a cave for the wind to die down. Learning that rocks can fly. Trying to sleep while drenched. Keeping watch at night. Enduring the mosquitoes. Hoping for a break in the weather.
Immense, raw, silent wilderness.
What were we looking for out there? Not just to accomplish a feat, but a quest for freedom, for intensity — for life.
On August 19th, after several attempts thwarted by weather, we finally reached the summit. Between the ocean and the pack ice, the most beautiful view I've ever witnessed.
A month later, the images still run through my head. I sort through the photos, the memories. It's not the achievement I miss. It's the discomfort. The slowness. Time standing still. It's up there — far from everything — that we feel most alive.
📍 Skjoldungen, East Coast of Greenland
Photo credit Matteo Della Bordella Silvan Schüpbach
Brimming with energy, driven by big dreams and an appetite for exploration — meet
Greenland 2024 - Exploratory Expedition to Waking Dream
Thirty-five days self-supported, 450km by kayak, 35 pitches on a 1200-meter virgin wall.
During the summer of 2024, Matteo, Silvan, Alex, and I dipped our paddles into the icy waters of Greenland. The objective was simple: to reach a remote fjord by fair means, and attempt to open a route on a 1200-meter untouched face on Drøneren Mountain.
Thirty-five days off the grid. Completely self-reliant. Storms, polar bears, soaking wet bivouacs. Navigating between icebergs, waiting in a cave for the wind to die down. Learning that rocks can fly. Trying to sleep while drenched. Keeping watch at night. Enduring the mosquitoes. Hoping for a break in the weather.
Immense, raw, silent wilderness.
What were we looking for out there? Not just to accomplish a feat, but a quest for freedom, for intensity — for life.
On August 19th, after several attempts thwarted by weather, we finally reached the summit. Between the ocean and the pack ice, the most beautiful view I've ever witnessed.
A month later, the images still run through my head. I sort through the photos, the memories. It's not the achievement I miss. It's the discomfort. The slowness. Time standing still. It's up there — far from everything — that we feel most alive.
📍 Skjoldungen, East Coast of Greenland
Photo credit Matteo Della Bordella Silvan Schüpbach
