Tag: Greenlands

Meet the man who scaled one of the biggest unclimbed rock faces on EARTH: Documentary shows Alex ‘No Big Deal’ Honnold risking his life to become the first person to climb Greenland’s Ingmikortilaq

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Alex Honnold first shot to fame back in 2018, when he became the first person in the world to climb the sheer face of Yosemite’s El Capitan with no rope.

Yet despite being joined by some of the world’s best climbers, and actually putting on a harness this time, his latest project is no less death-defying. 

Alex has taken on Greenland’s Ingmikortilaq – one of the biggest unclimbed rock faces in the world. 

During the risky mission, Alex was blinded

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The World Wants Greenland’s Minerals, but Greenlanders Are Wary

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The island has rare elements needed for electric cars and wind turbines. But protesters are blocking one project, signaling that mining companies must tread carefully.

By Jack Ewing

Photographs by Carsten Snejbjerg

NARSAQ, Greenland — This huge, remote and barely habited island is known for frozen landscapes, remote fjords and glaciers that heave giant sheets of ice into the sea.

But increasingly Greenland is known for something else: rare minerals. It’s all because of climate change and

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