| Mount Paatusoq | |
|---|---|
  Mount Paatusoq Mount Paatusoq, SEGreenland | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 2,488 m (8,163 ft)[1] |
| Listing | |
| Coordinates | 60°52′55″N43°44′56″W / 60.88194°N 43.74889°W /60.88194; -43.74889[1] |
| Geography | |
| Location | Mount Paatusoq, SEGreenland |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 1966[2] |
Mount Paatusoq, also known as 'Mount Patuersoq',[3] is the highestmountain in theKujalleq municipality, SEGreenland.[4]
Paatusoq is also the highest peak in theKing Frederick VI Coast area of far southeastern Greenland.
Long considered thehighest unclimbed peak in remote southeastern Greenland, Mt Paatusoq was finally climbed in 1966 by Austrian alpinistToni Dürnberger in very difficult conditions. Some of the team members fell into a crevasse and one of them was seriously injured.[2] Dürnberger had previously led the 1962 Austro-German Greenland Expedition(Österreichische Deutsche Grönland Expedition 1962) that had climbed unscaled peaks in theSermilik area from April to July 1962.[5]
Rising on the northern side of the inner end ofPaatusoq fjord Mount Paatusoq is an isolated peak in a remote and uninhabited location. This mighty mountain rises steeply from theglacier located north of thenunatak at the glacier confluence that has its terminus in Paatusoq fjord 10 km to the ESE.[1]
In the western part of Paatusoq fjord the mountain ranges on both sides of the fjord rise steeply from the shore to heights of about 2,000 m (6,600 ft). The massive succession of mountains on the northern side culminates in this magnificentultra-prominent peak towering to a height of 2,488 m (8,163 ft) above the glacier at the head of the fjord. This mountain is marked as a 8,238-foot-high (2,511 m) peak in theDefense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts[6] and as a 8,990-foot-high (2,740 m) mountain in other sources.[7]
Geologically the western end of the range and the mountains in thenunatak south of it are part of the PaatusoqSyenite Complex.[8]
