It was a mas­ter­pie­ce or rather quite the oppo­si­te: a group of four per­sons, pro­ba­b­ly locals from Lon­gye­ar­by­en, had alre­a­dy spent some days in a hut at Dia­ba­sod­den in Sas­senfjord. One of their snow mobi­les seems to have got a tech­ni­cal issue. The next thing was that the group was run­ning out of fire­wood, so two per­sons star­ted to dri­ve back to Lon­gye­ar­by­en to get help for the defect snow mobi­le or new fire­wood.

But in Advent­da­len, not too far from Lon­gye­ar­by­en, the two ran out of fuel. It is not known who it was that cal­led the Sys­sel­man­nen, but the case even­tual­ly beca­me a res­cue ope­ra­ti­on invol­ving the Sysselmammen’s heli­c­op­ter, which flew to Dia­ba­sod­den to pick up tho­se who had remain­ed in the hut wit­hout fire­wood.

Mean­while, the two per­sons in Advent­da­len had mana­ged to get back to Lon­gye­ar­by­en on their own strength.

Not all details are known in public, so it is a bit dif­fi­cult to under­stand what real­ly hap­pen­ed. But the group is cer­tain­ly now attrac­ting a lot of mockery in Lon­gye­ar­by­en and pro­ba­b­ly a reac­tion from the Sys­sel­man­nen, who is not keen on sen­ding out the heli­c­op­ter becau­se peo­p­le are run­ning out of fire­wood and fuel on a trip to a hut not too far from Lon­gye­ar­by­en.

Source: Sval­bard­pos­ten