The ice cap consumes 1.8 million sq km of the island, is over 3km deep and the ice at its base is over two million years old. The cold must also be a factor. Getting around in Greenland isn't as easy as hopping behind the wheel of the nearest 4x4. As long as you're prepared to put up with a few discomforts and some cold weather and can afford the travelling costs a trip to Greenland is a magical experience. To begin with there's all that ice, not just dripping in icicles from the eaves but huge chunks of the stuff kilometres wide and moving.
Glaciers shove their way through solid rock to the coast to spawn.
The loving caresses of the elements fashion sensuous shapes into the icebergs as they float towards the open sea. Vast plains of field ice sail the fjords that saddle the valleys between dark granite mountains and when winter comes any sluggish icebergs are trapped to create frozen islands that rise like monoliths out of a flat white plateau. The colours are captivating too. What you can't capture in either pictures or words though is the is the deep, sonorous cracking sound as huge chunks of frozen water snap off and crash into the sea.