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‘Genio Azul 2019’ Award for Ramón Larramendi
Ramón Larramendi, creator of the Windsled, received the Genio Azul 2019 Award on March 14 in Gijón. The prize, presented annually by the Vocento Group for the most innovative design, was awarded for his Wind Sled project. The ceremony, attended by around 200 people,...
Mission Accomplished: The Windsled Opens a New Route Across North Greenland
After just 17 days of intense polar travel, the Windsled team has completed a historic round-trip crossing of northern Greenland — a total of 1,541 kilometers — paving the way for future zero-emission scientific expeditions in one of the most remote regions on Earth....
Trans-Greenland Electric Challenge: A New Era of Polar Exploration Begins
From April 16 to 29, 2025, a pioneering expedition made history on the Greenland Ice Cap: the Trans-Greenland Electric Challenge, the first attempt to cross this vast frozen landscape using an electric snowmobile powered solely by solar energy. The expedition was led...
Research Conducted with the Windsled Published on Nature.com
Microbial biogeography by Victor Parro, Ana Justel and Antonio QuesadaNature is one of the most prestigious academic and scientific journals in the world, and having the opportunity to be featured in one of its articles is one of the most significant milestones in the...
Ramón Larramendi at the Italia Chiama Artico
Osservatorio Artico (Arctic Observatory) is an Italian platform dedicated to the study, analysis and dissemination of issues related to the Arctic and polar regions. It focuses on issues such as climate change, geopolitics, economy and exploration in the Arctic. This...
The Windsled Returns After the Pandemic: SOS Arctic Wind Sled Expedition 2022
The scientific and exploratory expedition SOS ARCTIC WINDSLED 2022 sets off on May 7 aboard the Spanish eco-vehicle, which will cover 1,500 kilometers in a circular route around the South Dome of Greenland. For the first time, the team will travel west to east across...
New Expedition “Antarctica Unexplored” 2018–2019 with the WindSled
A NEW EXPEDITION, NEW SLED, NEW PROJECTS The Windsled, led by Ramón Larramendi, is embarking on a new scientific and exploratory mission: the Unexplored Antarctica 2018–19 Expedition, which will take place from December 4, 2018, to February 12, 2019. This...
LARRAMENDI FILLS THE ATENEO OF MADRID
The polar explorer Ramón Larramendi gathered, in an event organized in Madrid, 350 people, the full capacity of the historic auditorium of the Ateneo in Madrid. He summarized the milestones, firsthand, of the adventure '2017 Greenland Ice River Expedition' with its...
LARRAMENDI IN THE CYCLE OF CONFERENCES “THE ARCTIC, THE LAST FRONTIER”
The Spanish Geographical Society, with the collaboration of the Ramón Areces Foundation, has organized for the tenth consecutive time the cycle of conferences dedicated, on this occasion, to the Arctic territory, which has gone from pure exploration, unknown and...
END OF A SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURE ON AN ARCTIC ICE RIVER
After 28 days and 1,200 kilometers traveled, the WindSled ended on June 22 the 2017 Greenland IceRiver expedition with the polar eco-vehicle. On that day they arrived to the point of departure, the town of Kangerlussuaq. During the crossing, Ramón Larramendi and four...
IN PROGRESS THE GREENLAND 2017 ICERIVER EXPEDITION WITH RAMÓN LARRAMENDI
Ramón Larramendi begins in mid-May the new WindSled expedition 2017 IceRiver Greenland, on a route that crosses the heart of the Arctic island. From the departure, May 20, until June 27 it will have a purely scientific objective, and that is also a new challenge for...
GREENLAND: “A COUNTRY FROZEN IN TIME”
Ramón Larramendi, explorer and leader of the WindSled project, from the south of Greenland, is following the pulse of the latest events on the Arctic island, right in the middle of winter. After a 2016 in which record temperatures were broken, it seems that 2017 has...
Independence: the big forgotten issue in Greenland’s elections
RAMÓN LARRAMENDI (reporting from Greenland) November 28 wasn’t a particularly cold day. In the streets of Nuuk, the country’s capital, there was a buzz of anticipation—an unusual sense of excitement for this part of the world. And for good reason. General elections...
CONCLUSIONS ON THE 1st CIRCUNNAVEGATION OF GREENLAND
The polar explorer Ramón Larramendi, accompanied by two of the four members of his team, the Spaniards Manuel Olivera and Eusebio Beamonte, with researcher Juan Ignacio López Moreno (IPE-CSIC) presented at the Spanish Geographical Society, on Thursday, December 11,...
THE WINDSLED TRIUMPHS AT THE SPANISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Scientific data collected on the 1st Circumnavigation of Greenland reveals up to 3ºC difference with respect to the models and snow in locations deeper than expected. Ramón Larramendi plans to circumnavigate Antarctica in a 7,500 kilometer journey at the end of 2018....
Ramón Larramendi, on Russian television RT
Russian television RT (formerly known as Russia Today) has broadcast a lengthy interview with polar explorer Ramón Larramendi about his Wind Sled project, his latest expedition to Greenland, and other professional initiatives of the Spanish pioneer.