Grundtvigskirken
| Grundtvigskirken | ||
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 Grundtvigskirken seen from Øfjord |
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| height | 1977 m | |
| location | Renland , East Greenland | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ N , 25 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| rock | Gneiss, top of pink granite | |
| Age of the rock | about 1 billion years | |
| First ascent | 1999 | |
The Grundtvigskirken is a 1,977 meter high mountain in Renland in East Greenland in the immediate vicinity of the Tsavagattaq summit. Characteristic is the over 1000 meter high, partly steep and overhanging rock face. The mountain is named after the Grundtvig Church in Copenhagen because of its characteristic appearance .
The first ascent of the mountain, which has not been named for a long time, is not known. In 1998 a Norwegian-Swedish group climbed the attached lower south ridge. In 1999 the same group reached the summit with a renewed attempt via the south ridge and thus managed the first documented ascent of the mountain. On the summit they found ropes and other climbing material from previous ascents or the first climbers who had apparently reached the summit via the easier south-west face.
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- Christian Beckwith (Ed.): The American Alpine Journal , 42/74 (2000), p. 241 . (Note: Tsavagattaq and Grundtvigskirken have been confused here.)
Web links
- Greenland 2008 . In: Climb Magazine , January 2010 (note: Tsavagattaq and Grundtvigskirken have been confused here .; PDF file; 2.4 MB) - The link target no longer exists, but the article can be found on docplayer.net
- Anthony K. Higgins: Grundtvigskirken - et bjerg i Østgrønland (PDF file; 907 kB). In: Grønland 34, No. 5, 1986, pp. 136–140 (Danish)
- The Geology of East Greenland . In: Deposits Magazine , April 27, 2017 (English)