That was the name of the plan for today- an arctic challenge: taking the kayaks to the other side of the Adventfjord and walk up to the Hiort-mountain (950m). But due to strong wind, we could not do anymore the kayaking and thus had to walk up another mountain named Nordenskiöld (1050). So, we, a group of 12 walked up there. Easy Sunday walk for an Austrian. The occasional snow storms and the strong wind did not bother us that much. Our guide was a friendly Russian called Vladimir, and as the Russian guide yesterday (in Pyramiden), a good guide in Svalbard is a Russian guy with a gun. Always trust the Russian guy with the gun. (Keyword: polar bears. No, we have not seen one so far.). Landscape: no words.
We came home around 16.00.
There were plans to re-do the kayaking part of the hike, so we agreed that our guides would call us if it's possible. But no, the wind came back, no kayaking. On the way outside, we ran across a South African guy who turned out to be tour organiser and needed big fancy camera equipment. He said he's not really good in landscape photography and showed us his 7D with a 10-22 lens. He said: go and play with it. Just wow. At least 5000 Eur lent for the afternoon. That's why we spent the time from 18.30 til 23.00 outside, made adequate pictures, and also saw an arctic fox.
At 2.00, after Argentina won the World Cup game, and all together 13.5 hours outside and walking - good night.
Zitate des Tages:
- Unser Sommerurlaub. Schneeweißer Strand, Blick aufs Meer, keine Gelsen.
- Schade, die Arbeit am Nordkapp wär schon nett gewesen, so weit im Süden...
- Quasi tropisch!
- Uh, ein Mensch!
- Ohne Gewehr. Quasi ein Selbstmörder.
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