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Feeding humpback whales in Paradise Bay, Antarctica. 

Emperor penguins on sea ice in the Weddell Sea.

Super excited to currently be back in the Southern Ocean. On the way to Antarctica. The first iceberg of our voyage is on the horizon and we are making good progress on our way into the Weddell Sea.

Approaching the end of a long season with a special treat: Northeast Greenland. As always a blast. Going from warm Svalbard to even warmer Northeast Greenland to finally get colder temperatures in Iceland. At least somewhere it’s still cold. Been quite an exhausting season, as… Read More »Approaching the end of the Arctic season

Crossing Svalbard on foot always sounded like a tempting idea to me. But how do you do that with a messed up leg? Just find the shortest crossing! Driving into unchartered waters on the East Coast of Svalbard until we are only 7.5 km away… Read More »Crossing Spitsbergen twice in a single day – with a broken leg

More ice to get back onto. This time Austfonna, the biggest glacier on Svalbard. Still a struggle to get up and down those places, but ever since I’ve been there for the first time last year, I had to come back and enjoy this scenery… Read More »Back on top of Austfonna

Slowly working my way back again. Exactly three months after my accident getting back onto a glacier in the Arctic again. What a great feeling. Still a long way to go until full recovery, but the view is great. And it’s crazy to see what… Read More »Back on a glacier – 3 months after the accident

It’s been almost ten weeks since I was carried on a special plane and evacuated from Svalbard to receive medical treatment. Ten weeks, which I won’t remember as the most pleasant ones. Probably still another couple of months to go until full recovery. But now… Read More »Back to Svalbard

One year ago we started the monitoring of a glacier lake on Svalbard. When we arrived at the end of May everything was still snow covered and nice and chilly. The lake itself didn’t form before June, as a matter of fact it started to… Read More »A warm summer on Svalbard

17 days ago it took six persons and a lot of serious drugs to move me just a few centimeters. Today I managed to stand up and walk short distances again without crutches. Today was also the first day I managed to go on a… Read More »Walking again