January 22, 2010
Visiting the World’s Northernmost Settlement of Ny-Alesund
My final stop on my Hurtigruten expedition around the Arctic Circle last summer was the world’s northernmost settlement: Ny-Alesund, at...
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September 18, 2009
Exploring Barentsburg, Svalbard’s Russian Mining Town
Our first stop on my expedition trip around the island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Circle was an eerie one indeed. A permanent Russian...
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August 24, 2009
Dog Sledding in Longyearbyen — Without the Snow?
After a very long trip from San Francisco to Chicago to Sweden to Norway, I finally arrived in Oslo, where I spent the entire day sleeping off...
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August 4, 2009
Taking a Polar Plunge in the Arctic Ocean
Sometimes, I’m a little crazy. But then you knew that already; that’s why you keep coming back time and time again, right?...
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July 31, 2009
Cruising Through the Icebergs of Fuglefjorden Spitsbergen
One of my biggest regrets while living in Denmark was never making it to up here—simply put, it was far out of my student budget at the...
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