Tiningnertok ( da, Apostelen Tommelfinger, meaning 'Thumb of the
Apostle') is a
mountain
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in
King Frederick VI Coast,
Kujalleq municipality, southern
Greenland
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.
This mountain is popular among
mountaineer
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s, especially its Northeast Face, but it is of difficult access for it lies in an isolated area where climatic conditions are often rough. Its
granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...
walls are similar to
Ketil's.
Geography
Tiningnertok is a massive
ultra-prominent mountain
An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.
The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or fro ...
with multiple peaks at the top.
It rises steeply from the shore east of small Tininnertooq Bay on the northern side of the middle section of
Lindenow Fjord
Lindenow Fjord or Kangerlussuatsiaq, is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. History
Igdlukulik, an archaeological site with the ruins of a former Inuit settlement lies by the shore where the Nørrear ...
(Kangerlussuatsiaq),
west of the mouth of the Nørrearm branch of the fjord.
The passing of noted French mountaineer Jean-Claude Marmier
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History
The history of mountaineering in Southeast Greenland began quite recently. In 1971 members of the French ''Club Alpin'' of Paris reached the base of the Apostelen Tommelfinger by helicopter, but had to desist following a number of accidents and other problems. Two years later, in 1973, an Italian group of mountaineers also experienced failure while trying to climb this remote peak.
See also
* Big wall climbing
Big wall climbing is a type of rock climbing where a climber ascends a long multi-pitch route, normally requiring more than a single day to complete the climb. Big wall routes require the climbing team to live on the route often using portaledges ...
* List of mountains in Greenland
References
External links
Alpina Americana - Greenland, Apostle's Thumb, Northeast Face 2016 Greenland expedition with climbing of Apostelen TommelfingerLindenows Fjord, Greenland, surrounding Apostelen Tommelfinger
Mountains of Greenland
Kujalleq
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