Greenland - July 2019 - Part 1 (Kulusuk)

[@рдыо]

Saludos desde Galicia vuestros hermanos desde Pangea 🤝🏻

[@edherwick6995]

I was there in 1983 when in US Air Force stationed in Sondrestrom. We included Kulusuk in the Dew line )(Dye site) resupply program. I was at Kulusuk twice. Once for a familiarization trip and once by the request of the Danish Government to look into the vast amount of equipment held in storage that was never used. Many of the things we (Americans) sent was the wrong voltage and it was just stored for decades. We could never get a retrograde program set up, so I have no idea what happened to all of that stuff. I was at the DYE site when it was operational a had several drinks with the crew there. A very unique experience and place. Thanks for sharing!

[@TheURLofEaling]

Thanks Ed - I hope it brought back some pleasant memories. I guess you'll have seen my part three (with coverage of Bluie East Two) which I've just read is finally being cleared up!

[@edherwick6995]

@@TheURLofEaling I'm going to rewatch them. Kulusuk was operationally under two units; Airfield Management, runway maintenance, old barracks, fire control, terminal management, logistics management. The dye site was a separate unit with a distant early warning mission. Every other Friday, the Danish terminal manager would host a party. A drunken mess. Several ladies from the village would walk to these parties. Keeping in mind, there were no medical personnel and no police of any kind. It was unique!

[@TheURLofEaling]

@@edherwick6995 Wow - I know interaction between service personnel and the locals was frowned upon, and its quite a long walk from the village up to the DYE station. But why were there TWO airfields, BE-2 and Kulusuk? Couldn't everything have been done with just the one. Or could Kulusuk airstrip not be made long enough? Feel free to email me - the address is at the end of all my videos.

[@edherwick6995]

@@TheURLofEaling I'll give you the quick answer. All of the DYE sites were on the ice caps except Kulusuk. The resupply of the other DYE sites was by a specialized Air National Guard unit (109th) who flew C130's equipped with skis. Kulusuk could not be resupplied that way. They airstrip was built and support facilities built to maintain it. The skill set of the DYE site workers would be used in that fashion. And, we wanted a presence on the eastern side of Greenland.

[@TheURLofEaling]

@@edherwick6995 Yes but you already had a runway at Ikateq (abandoned in 1947) so why did they need to build another one not so far away? Could they not have repurposed Ikateq?

[@minerwilly]

Nice video. I'm heading there next August and wanted to get an idea of what the place is like. Never heard of Haelos before but I'll definitely be getting acquainted with them tomorrow. Love it!

[@TheURLofEaling]

I'm guessing you're going kayaking?? It's a wonderful place. PS: glad you liked the soundtrack. :)

[@minerwilly]

@@TheURLofEaling I am indeed. It looks like an amazing place to paddle, but to be honest it's my kind of place anyway, remote, peaceful, and spectacular. Even confined to dry land I'm sure it would be an incredible place to visit.

[@TheURLofEaling]

...just noticed the broken link to the map in the description - I've fixed that now :)

[@TheURLofEaling]

@@minerwilly Then I'm sure you will love it - it's like nowhere else. I've done a few trips there now - all arranged solo travel - and I still plan to go again. In winter it's another place again.

[@minerwilly]

@@TheURLofEaling I would definitely love to see the place in winter. I could see this turning into a bit of long term love affair. It's going to be a long wait until August ;)

[@Redeemed.4salvation]

A million times, thank you for such a delight video! I do not have much hope of ever being able to visit there (or anywhere outside of the USA) due to illness, so I loved watching every detail of your video. Music and imagines brought it to life for me. 👌

[@TheURLofEaling]

Hi Kymberlee - many thanks for your kind words, and I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I'm so sorry you have travel restrictions. Please feel free to chat over email if you ever want to - my email address is at the end of all my videos, which I hope is an indicator of my openness and honesty. I know my videos are linked from other sites so I'd also be particularly interested to know where you were coming from when you found my channel (or whether it was direct from KZbin) - best wishes - S

[@RedNightDragon1]

9:20 That's "my" puppy: the black one! This cutie was all over me when my wife and I took a tour of Kulusuk in July 2019! I recognize him. Wow! Great video ... you have a great camera. East Greenland is amazing for sure. We also took off (and returned to) Reykjavik City. We did the walk to the village from the airstrip, but took a boat back across the bay -- although it was still something of a hike, LOL.

[@TheURLofEaling]

Glad you liked the video - Yeah East Greenland is a terrific place; subtly different from the West coast. Hope you like parts two and three of this series. Perhaps we were both there at the same time?!

[@RedNightDragon1]

@@TheURLofEaling Well, you posted on August 10, '19. We were there on 26 July '19, so I'm positive we were there roughly around the same time. Amazing, eh? I have a video on my YT page of our plane coming into Kulusuk, which looks remarkably like yours -- only with a not-as-great a camera. Pls check it out, if you like. I'm sure that black puppy was the same one I'd met, he was wicked friendly!

[@TheURLofEaling]

@@RedNightDragon1 Yeah I was there for about a week up until 15th July. It took me a while to plan and compile the video (soundtrack timings always take an age to get right) so was not posted until a few weeks later. Yep I'd seen your landing video - very nice! Its one of the more interesting runways to land on I think. I do all my stills and video using a Canon SX60HS.

[@kennyhumble3699]

Love the music baby

[@TheURLofEaling]

Thanks - I put a lot of effort into the soundtrack, knowing it will never please everybody. I reckon on an hour per minute of final film, half of which is the soundtrack.

[@kennyhumble3699]

@@TheURLofEaling you made this music?

[@TheURLofEaling]

@@kennyhumble3699 I wish! No - as per the opening credits, I used music by the band Haelos and the composer Alexander Desplat - it's a lovely slow build-up, and the pace is aligned to the speed of the way of life there - a steady rhythm!

[@kennyhumble3699]

@@TheURLofEaling oh ok

[@TheURLofEaling]

Comment by email from JA in London - Its a beautiful video, and so nice to see a clip of you too. The view from your room is stunning. Wish I had been there. Love the sound track too. So well timed.

[@FranklinNewhart]

How did I get to this video? Well I am flying around the world in Flight Simulator and today I flew across the ice fields and landed here. I always visit the places I land by coming here to You Tube and finding videos of the places I land at. If I am going to fly around the world on my computer I just better well visit along the way. I am Being a virtual reality tourist.

[@veronicaroach3667]

Very dramatic scenery, but I could not live there with not a tree in sight - seems so sad. If that is your home tho, that will be what you love the most ! Amazing how adaptable humans can be, but the greatest thing is the vast expanses of empty land - I love that, it puts us humans into our rightful position in the world - we should never forget it can survive without us !

[@TheURLofEaling]

Comment by email from TS in USA - Scenery was amazing, the remoteness of the region unimaginable, and I loved the puppies and teenagers playing!! Great job putting together the video.

[@melvinojr7318]

Amazing video! Thank you.

[@katiekiser4476]

This is a wonderful video. I've seen #1 and #3. I'm getting ready to watch #2. That is the order they piped up on you tube... Beautiful with lots of rocks. You went to the Maldives also you are so fortunate. I can only imagine. If you don't mind me asking what area do you live in?

[@TheURLofEaling]

Thank you Katie - it might the order I made them in?! I'll confess I have not been to the Maldives - but I saw a documentary about it and they were discussing the difficulties they have disposing of things there. I thought it a bit ironic that a more conventional paradise such as the Maldives shares a similar problem. I live in London UK. There are 5 more videos I've done of Greenland (which is probably my favourite country) on my channel, and some of other places too.

[@yourforte]

Beautiful video.

[@TheURLofEaling]

Thank you very much!

[@TheURLofEaling]

Comment by email from PP in Italy - Where do you find the music? Always so appropriate! You endeavour to transfer on the audience your experience and you accomplish that so well that it seems to be part of the video. For a while one enters the magic of the music that you choose, with savvy expertise and a sensitive heart.

[@TheURLofEaling]

Thanks for the kind words. Thoughtful as always! I've only ever used music that I already had in my private collection. Choosing it is usually easy but the hard part is making the timings work. In fact sometimes I already know what music I'll use while I filming.

[@TheURLofEaling]

Comment by email from IW in Hobart, Tasmania - Another terrific video. It’s a real art to be able to cut a couple of hours of video down to 15 minutes.

[@TheURLofEaling]

Comment by email from AK in London - I watched it all ☺️☺️ Inspiring!

[@cody5873]

Here because of Flight Simulator ... Amazing place

[@TheURLofEaling]

What flight simulator??

[@cody5873]

@@TheURLofEaling It's a piece of software that lets you virtually control aircraft and fly to different airstrips all over the globe. I happen to run across this obscure airstrip and decided to look up the actual things. This place looks amazing. Would love to visit one day.

[@TheURLofEaling]

@@cody5873 Ah well I know what flight simulators are; I worked on flight simulator software back in the 80s! But I'm always interested to know what leads people to my channel, and wondered if there was some specific app that was providing any prompting. Thanks for stopping by and commenting - it's appreciated. And yes it is an amazing place. I've been there a few times now - it has to be one of the most other-worldly escapes of all the countries I've been to.

[@cody5873]

@@TheURLofEaling That's awesome! I was looking for the most remote airport I could find and this was one of them. Keep up the good work

[@TheURLofEaling]

@@cody5873 :) You might also try Nerlerit Inaat - its about 500 miles north of Kulusuk and somewhere I've been trying to get to for some time now (before Covid struck all my plans :( ) Another one would be Qaarsut over on the west coast, which I have been to and which features in a couple of my other videos on KZbin from 2018.

[@venomycilious]

It disturbed me there was a white bear skin... What happened do they hunt them there?

[@TheURLofEaling]

They do, but it's very regulated - you need a license, there are very minimal quotas (which are monitored and adjusted annually by the authorities), and all catches have to be registered. Trophy hunting is illegal.

[@kennyhumble3699]

@@TheURLofEaling so there are Polar bears there?

[@TheURLofEaling]

@@kennyhumble3699 Yes. You are advised not to leave the settlements without arms, if only to frighten one away if you should encounter one.

[@kennyhumble3699]

@@TheURLofEaling yeah I'm not coming there lol

[@TheURLofEaling]

@@kennyhumble3699 OK but don't stay away only because of the polar bears. You are not very likely to encounter one, and it's a truly wonderful place to be.

[@kimgeldmacher]

Well done, Simon 👍. I enjoyed your film's very much🤩. Can I ask, what camara you used for filming?

[@TheURLofEaling]

Thanks Kim - perhaps surprisingly, I used a Canon SX60HS. Its a versatile Bridge with a 65x optical zoom. Now can I ask you something - how did you video the northern lights - was it single or multiple time-lapse or do you have a specialist camera?

[@kimgeldmacher]

@@TheURLofEaling Hello Simon, thanks for your answer. I'll take a closer look at the Kamara. I really liked your videos 😍... I filmed my aurora shots with a Sony A7sII. It is not a timelapse but actually realtime. Thank you for your interest 🤩...

[@TheURLofEaling]

I'm glad to hear that - well I'm impressed; my understanding was that you can't generally film the aurora in real-time, though the Sony has a reputation for low-light, and I guess the aurora were really bright when you saw them. I'm also surprised my Helheim video has attracted such attention, compared to my other videos. I know its got quite a few shares but I sometimes wonder where the traffic is coming from!

[@TheURLofEaling]

Comment by email from EK in Warsaw - WIDOKI PRZEUROCZE. Tutaj cywilizacja za dużo nie popsuła i jest pięknie😀😅😀

[@hrh4961]

Never was the MUTE button more welcome.

[@peterscott7140]

Spent all of the accessible summer of 1970 thereabouts but there were a lot more icebergs then.

[@valeriaairoldi6571]

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