GREENLAND. ARCTIC CIRCLE TRAIL HIKE

8 days, 174km. The hike through the flowering tundra in Greenland was truly powerful. Adventure. In our experience, the Arctic Circle Trail became a trail of trails.

Imagine - a huge expanse all around, as far as you can see. Mountains, lakes and fjords. Amazingly beautiful, blooming tundra. And wonderful silence all around, only the sounds of water, the whistle of a little northern bird or, as the night approaches, the barking of arctic fox.

Greenland has been tempting us for a long time. The great unknown. An unfathomably huge, icy expanse where polar bears live. At first it seemed that it was impossible to go hiking here at all, because there are no such trails. Or only tough, seasoned men with faces blown by the north wind could endure them. Like in Jack London novels. We started to study in more detail.

Arctic Circle Trail (abbreviated ACT) is a trail that winds through wild tundra from Kangerlussuaq in southwest Greenland to Sisimiut in the west - on the coast of the Labrador Sea. It is one of the most unspoilt trails in the world, it is also said to be the loneliest.

And so it was - during 8 days we met only ten other hikers on the trail. We exchanged impressions and what we have encountered along the way - from animals to other hikers, and moved on. It was unprecedented how quickly we got used to the fact that most of the time no one else was around us. And it was exactly why we were here - on ACT. To be in the wild, to be wild and absolutely free.

To be continued...