Mountaineering behind the student barracks

just behind our barrack in Nybyen, we have the most adventorous backyard you could imagine.

mountains and glaciers with an amazing view.

 

Nordenskiöldfjellet is the tallest mountain around and the way goes over one of the two ridges from another mountain...

....Plateaumountain, and it is full of curious reindeers

our "housemountain" is Sarkofagen, with an amzing view over longyearbyen, and always worth a small evening hike

Sometimes, our hiking groups get pretty large

View from Nordenskiöltoppen towards Björndalen

Trollsteinen is another famous mountain right behind our barracks.

here you can see were its name comes from

larsbreen is one of the glaciers next to us, and always nice for skiing

Excursion to the russian settlements on Svalbard

 

Our excursions for the Arctic environmentla pollution course brought us to the main point pollution sources up here: Pyramiden and Barentsburg

 

 

Lenin statue in Pyramiden, and abandoned russian settlement...

... which seems to fall apart

the main problem is still a pollution with PCB

But we also found other sources. the whole vegetable storage halls were filled by leaquing barrels with strange black stuff.

our environmental pollution group

the trip to barentsburg, a still operating russian mining settlement brought us on a tourist ship along Esmarkbreen...

...where we saw some bearded seals

in Barentsburg a nice green cover of plant welcomes us ... probably most invasious

the mining railway in Barentsburg

field work at kapp linee

Our first field trip for Arctic hydrology went to Kapp linee.

A nice stay in an awesome hotel in nowhere and a lot of hiking for measurments and lectures out in the field.

 

polar circel ride to kapp linee

Zodiac ride over lineevatnet

with a beautiful background scenery

And finally a bit hiking

Until we reached the glacier for our group project about the melting history of it