Now under Danish rule, Greenland is still a place for only the hardiest of souls. I swear to you I have never been to a place that, having just stepped out of the airplane upon arrival, felt so much like being on some lonely distant planet, far away from the earth. The pictures below are of Tassilaq, in Ammasalik, East Greenland, a place that was only discovered by westerners in this century. The East Greenlandic language is incredible. To see it written, is to see words with over eighty letters, thirty syllables. This disappearing indigenous language is spoken by one of the smallest groups of native speakers and so is of great interest to linguists who occasionally come, as I did, to this land of volatile storms, whales, polar bears, impossibly blue waters, palpable silences, midnight suns and six month nights, pretty little houses and yes, incredible emerald green valleys sprinkled with millions of tiny arctic blossoms.