Overview of my travels this summer, exploring Europes extremes from sand dunes to glaciers!
Gallery: Pyramiden
Photos from the Russian ghost town of Pyramiden.
A tour of Pyramiden
In a long-abandoned soviet mining settlement 79 degrees north, Lenin is locked in a staring match with a glacier…
Gallery: The world’s northernmost fjord cruise
Photos from a visit to the Nordenskiöld glacier, and the beautiful scenery along the way.
The world’s northernmost fjord cruise
To reach an abandoned Russian town – and the northernmost point I’ve ever set foot – I had to continue my travels by boat. The best weather of the trip meant endlessly beautiful scenery, culminating in the Nordenskiöld glacier.
Gallery: Longyearbyen
Photos from in and around Svalbard’s main settlement.
Visiting Svalbard
The remote arctic island of Svalbard – or, at least, its main settlement Longyearbyen, is not as inaccessible as you might imagine! Here’s what lured me there, how I managed to visit, and what I got up to whilst I was in town.