Expedition Game · Svalbard

The Ice Edge

Four days in Longyearbyen in April, snowmobiles and a weather window that keeps moving

April at 78 degrees north: the sun is back, the snow is deep, the fjords are still frozen. You have four days, two guided trips booked and a flight home that does not care about the forecast.

Places that fit

Ice Norway · March to May for snow with daylight Svalbard Polar bears, glaciers to the sea and four months without a sunset 6 daysWonder 10/10Effort 5/10

Ice Greenland · June to September for boats and the midnight sun Ilulissat Icefjord A fjord full of icebergs the size of cathedrals, calved from the fastest glacier on earth 5 daysWonder 10/10Effort 4/10

Ice Antarctica · November to March Antarctic Peninsula Two days across the Drake Passage to the only continent that belongs to nobody 11 daysWonder 10/10Effort 4/10

The scenarios

Danakil DepressionThe Salt RoadThree days in the Danakil with a convoy that has its own ideasPlay

SocotraThe CrossingSeven days on Socotra between two flights, with a guide, a driver and no signalPlay

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