Mont Forel
| Mont Forel | ||
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| height | 3383 m | |
| location | Greenland | |
| Mountains | Schweizerland Mountains | |
| Dominance | 1581 km | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 56'6 " N , 36 ° 47'15" W | |
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| First ascent | August 1, 1938 by Dr. Pidermann, Carl Baumann and André Roch | |
| particularities | second highest mountain in Greenland | |
The Mont Forel is a mountain in the King Christian IX's land in the east of Greenland . It is part of the Schweizerland Mountains, also known as the 'Schweizerland-Alpen'.
The summit is in a popular climbing region, along with the Watkins Mountains in the northeast and the Stauning Alps further north.
history
The mountain was named in 1912 by the Swiss geophysicist and Arctic explorer Alfred de Quervain after the naturalist François-Alphonse Forel , who died in the same year . De Quervain crossed the Greenland ice sheet from Godhavn (Qeqertarsuaq) in the west to the Sermilik fjord on the east side. In his expedition report Across the Greenland Ice Sheet (1914) he wrote: "On the left a great mountainous landscape has appeared, partly already indicated on the map, probably beyond the Sermilik. For a long time everything then disappears behind the ice horizon. You can still see that first mountain, he dominates. I named him Mont Forel. "
Mont Forel was first climbed in 1938 by a Swiss expedition of the Academic Alpine Club Zurich under the direction of André Roch .
geography
Mont Forel is the highest point in Greenland outside of the Watkins Mountains, where the highest mountain, Gunnbjørns Fjeld , is located. It is located just north of the Arctic Circle in the Schweizerland Alps above the Sermilik . There is an ice dome at the height of the summit . The Crown Prince Frederik Mountains extend to the northeast of Mont Forel.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swiss country . In: Mapcarta . Retrieved June 20, 2016.
- ^ Climbing and Mountaineering in Greenland . In: Lonely Planet . Retrieved June 18, 2016.
- ^ Alfred de Quervain's Swiss Greenland expeditions, 1909 and 1912 in Polar Record , Cambridge Journals by William Barr
- ^ The Swiss Expedition to Greenland 1938. André Roch
- ^ Alfred de Quervain: Across the Greenland Ice Sheet: the Swiss Greenland Expedition 1912/13. Basel: Kober, 1914, p. 100.
- ^ AAJ - Greenland, Mt. Forel, Climbs And Expeditions
- ↑ Mountain Info. Greenland 2006 Climb Magazine. January 2008 issue, p. 70
- ^ AAJ - Greenland, Mt. Forel, Climbs And Expeditions
- ↑ Climbgreenland - Mont Forel 3360 m
Web links
- The Swiss Expedition to Greenland 1938. by André Roch , text from the Alpine Journal (English)
- Pictures of an expedition from 2003 (French)