Trip start. "We have lift-off". Leaving warm sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida far, far behind.

Mark finally turns up at BWI airport, and retaliates in camera.

Chilly, early morning in Iceland. Most of the crew assemble outside Keflavik terminal.

Howie and Lee enjoying the dome building's interior, near the domestic airport in Reykjavik, Iceland.

At last, our first sight of Greenland. Glaciers empty along the eastern shoreline.

Boat ride from Narsarsuaq. 'The comb' rises to the south as we travel down Tunulliarfik fjord to Narsaq.

The Ilímaussaq complex. Characteristic treeless gray rockscape of the intrusion's alkaline syenites.

Almost at Narsaq. Just outside the complex, a view back east up Tunulliarfik fjord.

Arrival into Narsaq harbor early on a clear crisp summer's night.

Loaded into a pickup truck, we head out from Narsaq to pitch camp amidst the rocks of Ilímaussaq..

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