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Watch: Rock climber slides down iceberg on inflatable pizza slice

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Video @ladzinski & @andy_mann / The hallmark of any grueling expedition is the ability to laugh along the way with your friends as much as possible. It makes the hard times tolerable and the good times even that much better. We just returned from a 6 week expedition to Southeast Greenland, a mission led by @mikelibecki, where @ethan_pringle and Mike climbed the hardest route in the country up an unnamed mountain. A burly first ascent on un-chartered terrain. On the long boat ride back to Tasiilaq, Ethan wasn't done with "firsts" and decided to ride an inflatable slice of pizza down a 300 foot iceberg, launching into the icy waters. This trip was peppered with moments like this, the ones that make you feel like a kid again and keep you and your friends laughing. Hope you enjoy watching it as much as we did in person 😂 @connor_seybert

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American rock climber Ethan Pringle found the perfect way to cap off a six-week expedition to Southeast Greenland, and, thankfully, National Geographic was there to capture it.

As Pringle explained in an Instagram post, Mike Libecki, a fellow climber who accompanied him on the trip, brought the inflatable pizza slice to Greenland so he could float down a river on it. Pringle decided that before they left the country, he was going to take the pizza slice on a thrilling ride down an iceberg and into the North Atlantic.

"On our second to last day on the boat headed back to civilization we came across the perfect iceberg - a big ole mother with a long, perfectly angled slope that led to a 20 foot drop off," Pringle wrote. "Well I'm here to tell you folks, pizzas can fly and dreams do come true."

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