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Greenland, Baby

June 18, 2015by Leo Carew 1 Comment

It’s been a while since I posted here. I’ve been back in the UK for months now and have completed the rather uncomfortable transition between life in an Arctic wilderness […]

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The Midnight Sun

April 23, 2014by Leo Carew Leave a comment

The next time I shall see a sunset will be on my return to the UK (currently scheduled to be July). From these Northern latitudes, the sun now hovers above […]

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Cold

March 26, 2014by Leo Carew Leave a comment

You may’ve noticed that in previous updates, I have been rather reticent on the subject of temperature, perhaps surprising given that this is a blog about the Arctic. The simple […]

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Starlight

March 6, 2014by Leo Carew 1 Comment

Yesterday, I took advantage of the freedom granted by having a snow mobile and took a day-trip to Barentsburg. It took us 8 days to get there and back on […]

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Living on Borrowed Warmth

February 3, 2014by Leo Carew Leave a comment

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 […]

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The Dark Time

November 3, 2013by Leo Carew 1 Comment

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 […]

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Barentsburg and Back – The Russian Coast

October 9, 2013by Leo Carew 5 Comments

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 […]

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Winter is Coming

September 22, 2013by Leo Carew Leave a comment

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 […]

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