 Arriving at Svalbard lufthavn |
 Our room at Spitsbergen Guesthouse |
 Nybyen |
 Across the Longyear valley |
 Our quarters |
 Long abandoned mine 2 |
 Up the Longyear valley |
 Towards Nybyen and the Longyear glacier |
 Snowscooters abound but check out the motorcycle |
 Downtown Longyearbyen |
 Arctic tern |
 Arctic tern in flight |
 Down by the fjord |
 Houses in many colors |
 Grass grows here too |
 Vidar |
 Eirik |
 Steingrim, the photographer |
 View towards Mine 2 |
 Going to Piramida, the abandoned Russian mining settlement |
 Approaching Piramida |
 Harbor view I |
 Harbor view II |
 Anticipating our landing |
 Harbor view III |
 Harbor view IV |
 From Piramida towards the Nordenskiöld glacier |
 Piramida monument |
 Abandoned vehicles |
 Downtown Piramida |
 Russian architecture - notice the wood carvings |
 Inside abandoned swimming pool |
 Lenin was a symbol of a time of prosperity here |
 Downtown Piramida towards the Nordenskiöld glacier |
 Mining up in the mountain |
 The Nordenskiöld glacier |
 Approaching by rubber dingy |
 The glacier ends here |
 Our guide Katja from wildlife.no |
 Lots of blue ice |
 Strange ice formations |
 A ball on a stick ? |
 More blue ice |
 More ice formations |
 The glacier is "calving" before our eyes |
 The ball on the stick again |
 Vidar |
 Steingrim |
 A Puffin swimming in the arctic ocean |
 View from the boat |
 Towards the north of the Ice fjord |
 Hiking up from Longyearbyen |
 The party takes a small break |
 A familiar character at the back of the pack |
 It's pretty steep here |
 At the top of Sarkofagen, 1750 feet up |
 It's windy up here |
 View to a rainbow |
 Hiking down to the Longyear glacier |
 At the mouth of the Advent fjord |
 By the Ice fjord |
 At the top of the Longyear valley |
 View to downtown Longyearbyen |
 At the end of the rainbow |
 Inside Longyearbyen church |
 Church view 2 |
 Never saw a stronger rainbow ! |
 The Northern Lights research station |
 Huge ridges in a harsh landscape |
 Walking up the valley |
 Another abandoned mine, number 3 |
 Last meal before the plane departs |