Taste of Life in the Arctic | EastGRIP Portrait Series

Sepp Kipfstuhl of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP) poses for a portrait while cutting a larger entrance to the new tunnel at the EastGRIP camp on August 6, 2022. At seventy years of age, Kipfstuhl is a veteran of Arctic and antarctic research. He has participated in over 32 expeditions to the polar regions and was involved in the drilling and analyzing of numerous ice cores.

Sonja Wahl of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP) poses for a portrait at the underground science trench at EastGRIP camp on August 4, 2022.

Sverrir Æ. Hilmarsson, the diesel mechanic at the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP), poses for a portrait inside the mechanic's Garage tent at EastGRIP camp on August 3, 2022.

Field Leader of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP), Prof Dorthe Dahl-Jenssen, poses for a portrait inside the underground tunnel system at EastGRIP camp on August 3, 2022.

Frederik Bugge Nielsen, a camp chef with the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP), fries scallops and fried rice noodles at the EastGRIP camp on August 12, 2022.

Field Leader at the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP), Prof Jørgen Peder Steffensen, poses for a portrait of the inside the EastGRIP warehouse in Kangerlussuaq on August 17, 2022.

David Binne and Zhiyuan Gao - Mercury Survey researchers pose for a portrait at EastGRIP camp on August 4, 2022 at EastGRIP camp on August 14, 2022.

Mikkel Lauritzen, poses for a portrait on top of cargo sledge at EastGRIP camp on August 14, 2022.

Søren Børsting, a drill coordinator and mechanic at the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP), poses for a portrait beside the main drill tower and drill cabin at EastGRIP camp on August 6, 2022.

Caroline Hornnes Pedersen, the camp doctor, with the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP), poses for a portrait inside her weather port tent at EastGRIP camp on August 10, 2022.

Portrait of seismologists with the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP), Senior Scientist Coen Hofstede (AWI) and Prof Andreas Fichtner (ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), while sitting on a U.S. Air Force pallet stacked with scientific equipment at EastGRIP camp on August 14, 2022.

A driller, Martin Leonhard of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP) poses for a portrait on top of a PistenBully parked on the skiway at EastGRIP camp on August 14, 2022.