These are images from the July 1997 British expedition to a previously unvisited part of the Champs Elysées Glacier in East Greenland. The pictures have been arranged to look pretty on the page rather than to tell the story in chronological sequence. And so they belie our huge frustration at being grounded for a week by bad weather in the bleak setting of Kulusuk Airport. A short boat excursion to the nearby Angmassalik Island with my friend Colin Cameron was a pleasant interlude, but we were really only killing time. When the weather finally broke, we were flown in to our chosen area by helicopter, and then began the making up for lost days - the frantic "bagging " of a number of previously unclimbed mountain summits. It felt absurd to be under this time constraint in a landscape which had seen no human presence since Genesis One, playing a game which only Man could have invented.