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Martin Rickard

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  • ISKGA - Advanced Guide / Technical Adviser.

  • ISKGA - Registered Centre - Greenland.

  • BCU - Guide / Guide Module Provider.    BCU - L 4 Sea Kayak / Open Canoe Coach.   

  • BMLTB - Winter Mountain Leader.     RYA - Powerboat.

  • Sea Kayak Circumnavigation Ireland 1983.

  • Extensive experience leading expeditions in UK, Europe, Canada and Greenland.

  • 25 seasons in East Greenland - 20 years commercially.

  • Permanent kayak base in Tasiilaq, Angmagssalik - East Greenland. 

  • Specialising in guided Expeditions and Expedition Support for 3rd parties. 

  • SeakayakingUK - Approved Expedition Centre - East Greenland / Sponsored Paddler.

  • 2018 - Kayak Guide / Ice adviser - Steve Backshall / True to Nature / Greenland Adventure Documentary. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004gpg

  • Arctic Club - full member.

  • Antarctica - Kayak Guide for Aurora Expeditions, Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands.

I started out in the 1980's working alongside Nigel Dennis - for the next 20 years I worked in numerous outdoor centres - leading expeditions throughout the UK, Europe and Canada.

In 1983, with a pal, I completed the second ever circumnavigation of Ireland.

Ever since reading "Watkins Last Expedition" by F Sp Chapman I have been fascinated and some would say addicted by the history, culture and wilderness of East Greenland.  Specifically the Angmagssalik region where Watkins mapped and explored in the 1930's.

In 2000 I worked as a Mountain Leader / Kayak Coach on a schools millennium expedition - they went to Angmassalik. 

I got hooked, returning in 2002 and 2003 to undertake kayaking expeditions - retracing Watkins routes and locating his base camps.

2006, saw 3 of us attempt to paddle from Scoresbysund (ittoqortoormitt)  to Angmassalik - an unsupported journey of over 700 miles, down the uninhabited and inhospitable east coast.

In 2008 I established my own permanent kayak base in the settlement of  Tasiilaq on Angmagssalik Island.  

Over the years I have researched the work and followed the routes Gino Watkins  and Freddy Spencer Chapman undertook in the 30's, during their two British Arctic Air Route Expeditions. 

 

The Arctic Kayak Club - provides access to kayaks and equipment to enable you to explore this region of east Greenland.

Contact me for details 


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