Adventure Magazine Issue 220

Beneath the Ice
In the remote, icy wilderness on the
Greenland ice cap, a gaping hole marked
the spot where climber Will Gadd and his
support crew and film team would descend
into the unknown. A moulin is basically a
giant hole in a glacier, created when surface
water finds its way into a crack in the ice and
melts through. And in this dream project,
the plan was to climb into one and go deep
inside the Greenland ice cap to a place
nobody has ever been before.
Story and Images courtsey Redbull
What they discovered was a sparklingly
beautiful, but terrifying 90m-deep cavern,
with a roof made of hundreds of tonnes of
cracking, creaking and groaning ice.
Having become the first person to ice climb
up Niagara Falls, Will Gadd is no stranger
to perilous situations. But the Canadian
adventurer undertook his biggest and most
dangerous challenge in Beneath the Ice, an
exploration within the Greenland Ice Cap
with the aim of collecting global warming
data. Will tells us what motivates him to
embark on such a journey…
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