Simone Pedeferri, Matteo Della Bordella, Lorenzo "Pala" Lanfranchi and Richard Felderer have just returned from a successful expedition to the relatively unexplored eastern Greenland where there carried out 5 first ascents. Simone Pedeferri talks about the expedition.

Where can you climb for 24 hours non-stop, where there's an infinite number of walls to be explored and where nature still dictates the rythm of life? The answer for those in the know is but one: Greenland. This is exactly where the Ragni di Lecco climbers Simone Pedeferri, Matteo Della Bordella, Lorenzo "Pala" Lanfranchi and the photographer cum mountaineer Richard Felderer have just returned from.

Matteo, only 24 years old, is well known in the Alps for its bold and scary route in Wendenstocke, probably the more challenging wall in the Alps. He propose the expedition in March, and he comment that “ we had only a photo, not very clear, so was a little bit risky to go there. But it's really a fantastic place for new routes. The wheaetr has no intermediate points: when it rains, rains, but if the meteo is good, you can go climbing 24 hours a day. There are a huge amount of possibilities for new routes, and this just only in our fjiord! “

Simone Pedeferri, one of a more famous rock alpinist in Italy, described as "very beautiful, also aesthetically speaking" And if this climber-artist holds this opinion, then it must be true. Also because he immediatly stated that the Tasiilaq fiord, where they established their base camp, is one of the most beautiful and wild he's ever seen. He added that the granite walls in the Fox Jaw Cirque are "fantastic with truly superb rock." He concluded by uttering the words all alpinists dream of "You're so isolated and there are still so many walls to be climbed, it seems as if you're in Patagonia 30 years ago."

A wild an untouched territory therefore. So wild that "it's nature who dictates the rules" explains Pedeferri. Just like in all the rest of Greenland where "ice enters people's homes and you feel as if you're on a different planet for these environmental reasons, because here nature still holds the upper hand." As unbeatable as the "absurd number of mosquitoes that infested our little base camp." But this, it seems, was just an insignificant detail because "there weren't any mosquitoes on the rock faces and you could climb for 20 hours non-stop, seeing that there was constant daylight. What you usually achieve in three days you manage in just one..."

Talking about climbing and new routes. The first route, climbed by all four members, is called 'Emozione Polare' and climbs a 700m pillar which Pedeferri described as "perfect on extraordinary rock, one of the most beautiful routes I know." The four ascended the line in a 26 hour push from base camp to summit and back, with difficulties up to VIII, just one bolt on the route and only some belays equipped for the abseils.  Let me say that Della Bordella, in this route, has opened the more expo and difficult pitches”.

CAMPO1 (means Main base camp) CAMPO2 (means base camp under the walls) PARETI (means walls)

Qui, nell'universo
In memory of Marcello Meroni
Felderer, Della Bordella
480 mt diff: VI
No in-situ gear