Crossing Spitsbergen twice in a single day – with a broken leg
Crossing Svalbard on foot always sounded like a tempting idea to me. But how do…
Back on top of Austfonna
More ice to get back onto. This time Austfonna, the biggest glacier on Svalbard. Still…
Back on a glacier – 3 months after the accident
Slowly working my way back again. Exactly three months after my accident getting back onto…
Back to Svalbard
It’s been almost ten weeks since I was carried on a special plane and evacuated…
A warm summer on Svalbard
One year ago we started the monitoring of a glacier lake on Svalbard. When we…
Walking again
17 days ago it took six persons and a lot of serious drugs to move…
And then the helicopter came – the accident
No fancy fieldwork pictures this time. Instead an update of the type “shit happens”. I’ve…
Another fieldday – mapping icings and caving
Another day out in the field. Driving snowmobiles to map the volume of an icing….
Glacier mapping
Out and about. Getting glaciology students to do radar mapping on a snow covered glacier….
Sunday is caving day
What’s the best way to spend a sunny Sunday? Going underground and crawling in the…
The contradictions of Longyearbyen
Friday: Global climate strike in Longyearbyen. Saturday: Never ending lines of scooters driving in and out…
The rain is finally over
Finally managed to get out after 1.5 weeks of waiting. Too warm weather, around +5°C,…