Living on Borrowed Warmth
We have at last acquired a stove for our tent. It is not the one we ordered (DHL claims delivery is quite impossible but appear to be wilting under a […]
Author Archives: Leo Carew
Life in the Freezer
We’re back in Svalbard. After a six week hiatus in England (which appeared to be mostly underwater) and a rather underwhelming November spent in the town of Alta, Northern Norway, […]
The Dark Time
I write from a university cafeteria in Alta, Northern Norway. The dark-time has descended upon Svalbard, with the impending winter beginning to make its presence felt through cold that bites […]
Barentsburg and Back – The Russian Coast
Myself and my fellow students have just returned from an epic eight-day trek to Barentsburg; a Russian mining settlement on Svalbard’s West Coast. This was a hard expedition. Travelling 150km […]
Winter is Coming
Winter is coming to Svalbard. The long arctic day has come to an end, with darkness now cloaking our evenings. Snow dusts the mountaintops that surround Longyearbyen and there is […]
Nordenskiöldbreen – The Glacier Excursion
Today, we celebrated a birthday. We have just returned from our 8-day expedition to the tremendous Nordenskiöldbreen glacier, and, whilst noting down each others’ birthdays to produce a moonshine batch […]
Back at Last
More than three years since I was here last and true to the promise I made myself at the end of my expedition here in 2010, I have returned to […]
