Baselfjeld North
- Baselfjeld North
- 2666 m
- Primary factor 719 m
- Location: North 73.23069, West 28.60452
- Saddle: North of Petermanns Bjerg, at 1947 m.
- North-East Greenland
- First ascent, June 25. 1998
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Information:
How to get there:
The mountain is located at North: 73.23069, West: 28.60452 .
This is a GPS measurement from the summit.
We skied over a flat area from our base camp just south of the
mountain Gog.
Route description:
Ski up to the col south of the summit.
(between Miriam and the ridge extending west towards Basel Fjeld.)
There is a band of rocks extending nearly all the way to the summit along
the steep cliff to the west. We climbed on the ice along this band.
About two thirds of the way up the slope gets steeper and the easier slope is
along a short traverse towards the right (the snow ridge). The last part is
almost flat along the ridge to the highest point.
Comments:
One of the finest (and highest) summits in the local vicinity. Beautiful
views towards the icecap in the west, Gog in the north-east and Peterman to the
south.
The top is a long, quite flat arching edge. We reached
the summit at 6 AM (GMT). A cairn was built at the
highest rock point. (The snow ridge being slightly
higher at this time of year.)
The technically more difficult peak at the end of the
ridge extending from our starting col in the opposite
direction was climbed by three other members of our
party the same day (also this a first ascent).
Prominence: the assumption is that this peak is the highest north of
Petermanns Bjerg, east of Victor Madsens Gletscher, south of Jættegletscher,
and west of Gregorys Gletscher. Furthermore, the saddle when crossing
from Gregorys Gletscher to Victor Madsens Gletscher just north of
Petermanns Bjerg is (Arctic DEM) 1947m. Our base camp was near this
saddle point, and fairly accurately determined to 1950 meter.
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