GRNLND Chapter 3: Onwards
Team Moskus had failed on Mt. Doom. We traipsed into basecamp beneath the midday sun, exhausted and bitterly disappointed. We’d climbed through the night and half the day, and crawled […]
Team Moskus had failed on Mt. Doom. We traipsed into basecamp beneath the midday sun, exhausted and bitterly disappointed. We’d climbed through the night and half the day, and crawled […]
Some months ago now, I returned from the expedition of a lifetime in Arctic Greenland. The period since has been one of the busiest of my life, and it is […]
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 […]
Back when I first arrived on Svalbard in 2010, we had a saying: “The sun always shines in Oscar II Land.” Looking out across Isfjord from its Southerly coast, it […]
After 10 days spent in the field, I have returned to the relative civilisation of the world’s Northernmost town to hear devastating news. The Sex Panther, my heroic leopard-print snow-mobile, […]
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 […]
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 […]
So I’ve succumbed to my rather less mature side and bought a snow-mobile. This was certainly not part of the plan for this year, but for the grand price of […]
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 […]
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, […]