Ketil (mountain)

Ketil
Uiluit Qaqqaa

Ketil's mighty West Wall
Highest point
Elevation 2,010 m (6,590 ft)
Listing List of mountains in Greenland
Coordinates 60°24′59″N 44°30′44″W / 60.41639°N 44.51222°W / 60.41639; -44.51222Coordinates: 60°24′59″N 44°30′44″W / 60.41639°N 44.51222°W / 60.41639; -44.51222 [1]
Geography
Climbing
First ascent 1974

The Ketil (Greenlandic: Uiluit Qaqqaa, meaning "Shell Mountain") is a 2,010 m–high mountain in southern Greenland, in the Kujalleq municipality.[2]

Ketil's granite walls are similar to Tiningnertok's (Apostelen Tommelfinger), another massive peak in the east coast.[3]

Geography

Together with Nalumasortoq and Ulamertorsuaq, Ketil is part of the group of three massive largely unglaciated rocky mountains rising in the peninsula of the mainland which forms the eastern side of the Tasermiut Fjord.[4]

In the same manner as its slightly lower neighbour Ulamertorsuaq, Ketil has become popular among mountain climbers owing to its higher than 1000 m sheer western granite wall. It is considered one of the most challenging Big Walls on Earth.[3]

This mountain is marked as a 2,003 metres (6,572 ft) high peak in some sources.[5]

See also

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ GoogleEarth
  2. ↑ Gazetteer of Greenland written by Per Ivar Haug, UBiT (Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim), August 2005, ISBN 82-7113-114-1
  3. 1 2 "Big Walls in Southern Greenland". Big Wall. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Tasermiutsiaq". Mapcarta. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  5. ↑ Greenland Tourism: Hiking Map South Greenland/Tasermiut fjorden – Nanortalik. 1996

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