Ramón Larramendi, the famed Spanish explorer who has travelled almost 25,000 miles in polar territories, fell in love with Greenland when he first visited in 1986. So enamored was he with the island that just a year later he moved to Aasiaat, a small town in western Greenland, where he learned to kayak among icebergs and operate a dog sled.
A few years later Ramón devised and undertook an expedition he named Three Years Across the Arctic, which saw him travel 8,400 miles without using motors or GPS. His journey, which was covered in a 1995 edition of National Geographic, allowed him to see Greenland from a whole new perspective, and this exposure to the country’s stunning — yet tremendously vulnerable — environment instilled in him a desire to prioritise and promote sustainability wherever possible. That’s what encouraged him to found Tasermiut South Greenland Expeditions.
“This is a remote and unspoilt landscape,” says Ramón. “I wanted to organise a type of…