Yggdrasilkampen is the mountain on the southern side of Mimerdalen, where the well-known Russian ghost settlement of Pyramiden is situated. It is the long ridge which you constantly see as you look from Pyramiden across the valley. An impressive mountain with a wide plateau with some protruding ledges. It won’t surprise you to read that the view from these ledges is great. The fact that the sun is coming from a good direction for most views of interest during mid-day and afternoon does not hurt either. To the west, you can see the valleys disappearing in the distance in beautiful Dickson Land, you have got Pyramiden more or less to the north or northeast and all the way to the east, you can see Billefjord and Nordenskiöldbreen. All this together makes for quite an impressive panorama! I hope that the panos on this page manage to transport a bit of that impression.
The „problem“ is that you have to have to get there to enjoy the view. As a round trip from and to Pyramiden, ascending Yggdrasilkampen from Billefjord and descending down to the valley in the west, it is almost 20 kilometres. You are climbing a net altitude of 583 metres. The ascent and descent are both quite challenging: steep slopes with lots of loose scree, that definitely requires good confidence to move around in that kind of terrain. And you have to know the right spots where you actually can get up and down, mostly it is just too steep!
The companion book for the Svalbardhytter poster. The poster visualises the diversity of Spitsbergen‘s huts and their stories in a range of Arctic landscapes. The book tells the stories of the huts in three languages.
Comprehensive guidebook about Spitsbergen. Background (wildlife, plants, geology, history etc.), practical information including travelling seasons, how to travel, description of settlements, routes and regions.
Lofoten, Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen from the air - Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German, but there is very little text, so I am sure that you will enjoy it regardless which languages you read (or not).
Join an exciting journey with dog, skis and tent through the wintery wastes of East Greenland! We were five guys and a dog when we started in Ittoqqortoormiit, the northernmost one of two settlements on Greenland’s east coast.
12 postcards which come in a beautifully designed tray. Beautiful images from South Georgia across Antarctica from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea and up to Macquarie Island and Campbell Island.
Spitsbergen – Antarctic double calendar. The back side of the sheets, which used to be blank until 2019, are now fully used so you actually get two calendars for the price of one – twelve stunning Spitsbergen images on one side and twelve equally stunning Antarctic images on the other side!
Huts are places of longing, dreams and adventure in Spitsbergen’s beautiful landscape. Even if the modern visitor’s eye may mostly be directed towards nature, most will have an open ear every now and then for exciting survival stories about explorers and expeditions, adventurers and trappers.
These huts are silent witnesses and and every one of them tells a little part of the whole story. The little book “Svalbardhytter” and the poster that is part of the same project make these fascinating places accessible for everyone.
From remote ruins, just traces in a few cases, to “famous” trapper huts such as Fredheim in Tempelfjord and Bjørneborg on Halvmåneøya, the war weather station Haudegen, the former scientific base Würzburger Hütte on Barentsøya and Hammerfesthuset, Svalbard’s oldest building.