Real life Greenland "Odyssey" celebrated in forthcoming documentary

  • One of the team making repairs with a portable welder and taking on fuel delivered by a ski-equipped Dash 7 turboprop airplane. Photo contributed by Jon Solberg.
    One of the team making repairs with a portable welder and taking on fuel delivered by a ski-equipped Dash 7 turboprop airplane. Photo contributed by Jon Solberg.
  • Dr. Jon Solberg surveys a field of crevasses during the E7 Greenland expedition. Photo by Scott Brady, a member of the expedition.
    Dr. Jon Solberg surveys a field of crevasses during the E7 Greenland expedition. Photo by Scott Brady, a member of the expedition.
  • Real life Greenland "Odyssey" celebrated in forthcoming documentary
    Real life Greenland "Odyssey" celebrated in forthcoming documentary

    ND’s own Dr. Jon Solberg served as team physician on 1,400 south-to-north crossing

    When North Dakota emergency physician Dr. Jon Solberg agreed to be the first to cross Greenland’s ice sheet by vehicle with six other adventurers in 2018, all the lessons he’d learned through life came to bear.

    From his earliest midwinter campouts in snow caves near Stanley, North Dakota as a youth, to his medical tra…