Inuit women and children by the umiak (women's boat) on the shore. One of the pictures from the expedition to Greenland in the period July 1888 to May 1889. Fridtjof Nansen together with 5 other Norwegian participants crossed Greenland in the course of a 42-day skiing trip from the east to the west coast. The expedition was forced to spend the winter, and this gave Fridtjof Nansen a chance to get to know the native inhabitants, and to study the Inuit way of life.