The Noorderlicht starts its voyage
Video by Matt Wainright
First night and second day
Comfortably cruising aboard the Noorderlicht through the blue of an Arctic high pressure system. Cold and clear we go between Western Spitsbergen Island and Prins Karls Forland Island due north through the Forland Sundet. We have had our early day[…..]
Expectation and Reality
Left Canada a few days ago to come to this remarkably remote place at 78 degrees north to join Cape Farewell’s global Climate/Culture Expedition. A group of 20 scientists, writers, visual artists and musicians; a delightfully odd collection of souls[…..]
Dispatches from the 78th Parallel
As one of twenty of an international crew of writers, artists and scientists participating on the Cape Farewell’s 2010 Arctic expedition, I’m in the midst of sailing up the west coast of the archipelago of islands of Spitsbergen from Longyearbyen,[…..]
Hey – Hey from Paul – From Norway, then the North Pole
Hey people – the explorer Roald Amundsen once said “adventure is just bad planning” – I’m trying to figure out the reverse. Good planning leads to a lot of information, but perhaps not much adventure. I’m with a group of[…..]
The moon odyssey continues…
Don’t forget your toothbrush
You don’t want to be forgetting anything on a trip like this, there’s no popping down the road to get extra supplies once the expedition has started… now where did I put that toothbrush?
The crew is on their way…
All 20 voyagers made it so far to Oslo. Excess luggage is over 150kg and the need for several empty water containers is still oblivious to some. And on we go. The next leg of the journey is Tromso and[…..]
Finishing the Excavation
Getting ready for the expedition, I am just finishing the excavation of a number of artefacts from a site North-East of Lake Ontario. I have been taking detailed photographs in my studio. These artefacts were apparently cast of pure beeswax[…..]
