Rune participated on Skydive Elvenes ´14 in July, which is a yearly boogie. Skydivers from all over Norway comes to the old airfield in Salangen where IT happens during two weeks. A Porter Pilatus + two Cessna do the job to get the jumpers up to the right altitude. Rune was there just for some…
Finally I could do it. When I was a child we were hiking onto these mountains, and talking about it: “What if…what if we just could have been flying out of there?” Now it is possible, and a thrill to do it. Took some years to get there. This technique is definitely something to bring out on…
27th of March 1994 Rune and Torry started out from Umanaq on the West coast towards Isertoq on the East coast. The hardest one, Rune says. It was Runes first “real” expedition and was a really good lesson learn and preparation for the Greenland lengthways expedition, two years later. Without lengthways would have been impossible. They…
The fifth and the last episode of the dokumentary “In Jan Baalsrud´s footstep” is now available on NRK NettTV. The serie has been the most viewed program on Norwegian television the last five Wednesday´s which Rune and the rest is very happy with. The project is completed and Rune is looking for new project´s.…
Episode Three of “In Jan Baalsrud´s footstep” is now available to watch on NRK NettTV. If you have not seen it, take a look. If you missed something, take a look at the link. In the episode Ronny and Rune is rowing across the Grøtsundet meeting more people. They are moved to Kjosen by boat…
Episode two of “In Jan Baalsrud´s footstep” is now available to watch on NRK NettTV. If you have not seen it, take a look. If you missed something, take a look at the link. In the episode Ronny and Rune has “dried” up, and set course for Ringvassoey, where Baalsrud went across the island with…
19th of September the yearly Cordon Rouge Club dinner happened, Hyde Park, London, Mumm Champagne. Quite a few of the members came, but as usual the most of them are out somewhere on a project or expedition. It became a lovely and lively afternoon, with lots of good stories and good laugh. Extraordinary good food…
Thursday the 14th of June 2012 the Norwegian polar explorer and adventurer Rune Gjeldnes was awarded the prestigious Mungo Park Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In addition to the medal Mr Gjeldnes was also given an honorary membershipof the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. The award ceremony took place at PerthConcert Hall in Scotland,…
Since 1999, together with Bergans, Rune has been looking for the best Polar expedition clothing possible. For the Summer North Pole expedition we were looking for modifications on the Bergans Antarctica suite made in Microfiber. There will always be some few things to optimize and want changes. During summertime on the Arctic Ocean we new…
Tom Edvindsen, Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) made a film of Cecilie Skog and Rune Gjeldnes attempt to become the first to ski and canoe to the North Pole during the summer. Cecile and Rune had to make a hard desission. Push on towards North to try to reach the North Pole, and have a big chance…
Rune was asked to write a children’s book about Fridtjof Nansen some time ago, by Kagge Publishing. Now the book is finished written, printed and out for sale. For Rune it has been a challenging writing. Certainly everything had to be right on the spot. 70-80 other books is about him. It then also had…
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