Greenland Ice Cap in 1959

 

 

 

Photo by William M. Nichols, 61st TCS Pilot

 

Sondrestrom AB, Greenland.      This photo was taken in the evening while on a survival training exercise on the ice cap in 1959.  The photo shows the windswept surface of the ice cap.  These low-lying sastrugi are hard enough to support a person such that no footprints show on the surface.  Caption by Bill Nichols.  (Circa 1959)

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