An AAJ 2018 report about an ascent of Grundtvigskirken in Renland mistakenly reported that an earlier name for this 1,977m formation—Penguin Tower—was proposed by a 1985 expedition. In fact, it was given this name by the 1987 team that visited this area in the yacht Penguin. The members were Daniel Caise, Philippe Cowez, Michèle Héralie, and me, all from Belgium, and we were immediately attracted by the superb rock tower, which we called Penguin Tower after the boat. 

On August 13 and 14, Daniel and Michèle climbed the south ridge to where it becomes very steep, then retreated due to inadequate equipment. [The south ridge eventually was climbed in 1999.]

We then decided on another objective: triple-summited Peak 1,882m, about four kilometers to the southwest. On the 15th, Daniel and I climbed the northeast face, which presented no great difficulties. We found no trace of previous passage, and Daniel left an empty beer can on the summit. [Reports in the AAJ and elsewhere credited the first ascent to a Swedish team in 1999.] Given that Grundtvigskirken is the accepted name for the 1,977m summit we named Penguin, perhaps Peak 1,882m now could be called Penguin Tower.

With limited time remaining, we split into two teams. Daniel and Michèle were unsuccessful with their objective, but I went alone up a glacier immediately west of Renland’s Skillbugt Fjord. I named this glacier Belgica. Where it bends west, I continued north into a side glacier that I named Glacier du Solitaire (71°11'40.37"N, 25°46'23.60"W). At the head of this, I climbed a summit at 71°12’07”N, 25°47’16”W, similar to the Calotte des Agneaux in the Ecrins Massif of France. I proposed to name it after my father—Pierre Baguet—who had helped purchase the yacht. [The Belgica glacier system, seemingly unnamed on today’s maps, was explored in 2012 by Michel Raab (AAJ 2013). Since then, several parties have climbed various peaks and rock routes here, including Northern Sun Spire in 2019, the east face of which was climbed by an all-women team in 2022 (AAJ 2023). It appears Mitsy Peak, climbed by Raab, lies about 700m southwest of the peak climbed by Baguet and is of similar height of more than 1,800m.]

A 1989 trip to Greenland, again aboard Penguin, was thwarted by sea ice. I then returned to the east coast in 1991, this time aboard Kittiwake, with the goal of climbing Mt. Shackleton in Goodenoughs Land.

Starting from Kjerulffjord, our group marched for three days before realizing we could not reach Shackleton due to difficult snow conditions. Instead, we headed toward an unnamed peak at approximately 72°56'2.65"N, 28°35'23.79"W, and climbed it by two different routes. We named it after Georges Lecointe, who was second in command of the ship Belgica during the first overwinter by boat in Antarctica. Two other unnamed peaks were climbed to the east-southeast (in the vicinity of 72°54'58.87"N, 28°18'19.65"W).

— Paul Baguet, Belgium