Tag: Sisimiut

Managing the route, from Australia to Greenland’s Arctic Circle Trail

Mirjana Binggeli

Hiking in the magnificent Greenlandic backcountry as your job? For many, this may seem like the ultimate fantasy, but for Lisa Germany it is a professional reality. Interview.

Could seaweed be Greenland’s next big export?

Ulrik Maki Lyberth posing with two different species of seaweed; so-called sea lettuce flakes and a species of bladderwrack. Photo: Maki Seaweed Facebook

Ole Ellekrog

The “climate-friendly superfood” can help remote villages battling unemployment, and its supply is seemingly endless.

Arctic Sounds Festival will rock Sisimiut

Mirjana Binggeli

Rock, rap, pop, folk, drum singing and death metal. Almost every musical genre is invited to the Arctic Sounds Festival, which kicks off today in Sisimiut, Greenland.

Arctic Circle Trail on its way to a tax?

Mirjana Binggeli

Greenland Arctic Circle Trail attracts more and more visitors every year. The number of visitors is not without stakes for a hike that could become chargeable.

Homeless in Greenland: Researchers given millions to investigate causes

Homelessness in the Arctic comes with extra challenges. To avoid hypothermia, people inflicted by homelessness often have to stay in stairwells, like this one in the town of Sismiut. Photo: Piitannguaq Egede at Unsplash

Ole Ellekrog

Little is still known about the reasons that Greenlanders end up on the street.

Arctic youth discovered similarities between their distant countries

Two of the Arctic Resilient Comunities Youth Fellows enjoying a break at the beach in Sisimiut, Greenland. Photo: ARCYF

Ole Ellekrog

In the new Arctic Resilient Communities Youth Fellowship, 17 young people from Alaska, North Canada and Greenland traveled to each other's countries.