The members of the expedition in boats along the east coast of Greenland. They are on their way north in order to find a suitable place to start their march toward the west coast. The poor weather conditions and the difficult ice situation had at first forced them too far to the south. 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.