Nordmannsfonna is a small ice cap, about 500 m high, which is frequently traversed in the late winter on the way to the east coast. Even though it is only a couple of kilometres that you spend travelling across the more or less even terrain of the ice cap, you get a nice impression of the vast landscapes of an ice cap. The horizon seems to be very ar away.
Most people who get to Nordmannsfonna will be out on a snow mobile tour, but this beautiful area can also be part of an amazing but quite demanding ski hike of several days, although snow mobile traffic in Adventdalen and Sassendalen may be annoying at times. But there are alternative, quieter routes and the infinite spaces on the glaciers towards the east coast, which is what you see in this panorama, are just infinitely beautiful!
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.