Pho­to gal­le­ries from the cur­rent arc­tic spring are now get­ting online on this web­site. A small collec­tion of pho­tos from late March makes the begin­ning – back then, it was still get­ting dark at night­time! Unbe­liev­a­ble …

Over the next weeks and mon­ths, much more will fol­low, from the ongo­ing spring sea­son with snow mobi­le and ski trips in the arc­tic win­ter to the sum­mer sai­ling sea­son in Spits­ber­gen and Jan May­en. So it will be worth to come back and check the pho­to gal­le­ries and tra­vel reports/triplogs regu­lar­ly!

Bey­ond this, new polar pan­ora­ma pho­to­gra­phy is cur­r­ent­ly in pre­pa­ra­ti­on for publi­ca­ti­on on this web­site.

Eas­ter is high sea­son for the out­doors in Scan­di­na­via, and the same is true for Search and Res­cue (SAR) for­ces – depen­ding on the wea­ther. This year, the wea­ther was not very sta­ble during the Eas­ter wee­kend, with lots of snow­fall and some strong winds, which in some regi­ons reached gale for­ce.

In the end, the local SAR for­ces had to air­lift 26 per­sons out from their Eas­ter trips. This inclu­des a group of 19 on Aka­de­mi­kar­breen (not 16 as men­tio­ned ear­lier), who had got stuck in bad wea­ther, with 2 tents alrea­dy des­troy­ed in gusts. They got their ride back to Lon­gye­ar­by­en on Satur­day. The same day, a per­son was evacua­ted from Petu­nia­buk­ta (near Pyra­mi­den) after a snow mobi­le col­li­si­on. Yes, such a thing can hap­pen, even in the wide-open wil­der­ness of a fro­zen fjord. Espe­cial­ly in strong winds with poor visi­bi­li­ty.

Bey­ond this, one per­son had to be air­lifted from Kapp Lin­né and ano­t­her one from the rese­arch ves­sel Lan­ce, both with inju­ries.

All per­sons are well, the­re were no serious inju­ries.

Hap­py Eas­tern …

Source: Sys­sel­man­nen