Helvetia Tinde


Helvetia Tinde is the highest mountain in the Roosevelt Range, Northern Greenland. It is also the highest mountain of the northernmost mountain range on Earth.
Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park.

Geography

Helvetia Tinde is located about from the North Pole. It is the highest peak of North Peary Land.
This mountain rises in the central region of the Roosevelt Range proper, west of the Polar Corridor pass , about SSW of the head of Sands Fjord. Helvetia Tinde is high although according to other sources it is a slightly lower peak.

Climbing history

Helvetia Tinde was first climbed in 1969 by the members of an expedition by the British Joint Services during a topographic and geological survey of the northern part of Peary Land.
The second ascent of the summit was made via a new route on 17 July 2001 by the 2001 Return To The Top Of The World Expedition led by John Jancik, Ken Zerbst and Terri Baker with David Baker, Jim McCrain, Jim Schaefer, Joe Sears, Vernon Tejas, and Steve Gardiner.