Maybe for mines. Winter at the end of the world neighbors far away in the days are short. Its eleven in the morning and its just getting light its the shortest day of the year. A lighthouse nunavut is as far north and west as its possible to get on the european mainland. Lapland is the most remote corner right at the top of europe a region extreme of. Above the arctic circle. First thing each morning eleana hands and so on and looks towards the small harbor to see if a boat is still there its their only link to the mainland its low tide so she has to wind the gangway down to the pontoon she lives more or less alone on the island in the sea shes been here for five years. At first glance it doesnt look like anyone could be selfsufficient here but first appearances can be deceiving elena is checking on todays dinner. That echo ive caught crabs today its always Something Different sometimes its crab sometimes fish potatoes or carrots from my garden if you just saw it there watching you on the gangway i wonder is this a little bit uncomfortable it did feel a bit i dont feel that i moved here because i wanted to lead a good and exciting life and challenges like this a part of that life there are forces that are stronger than me once i cant keep up with judith and that. Its still much too early for dinner so alaina keeps a catch in the water until later. Her small realm is a manageable size the island has a jetty a lighthouse a well rocky fields and a sandy beach. Helena regularly gets helpers on her island who perform hard physical labor in exchange for room and board here she and rocco from side to nia walk past the potato field to the beach. They want to harvest freshly was. Stop seaweed to fertilize her vegetables maintaining an old island tradition c wade is full of potassium magnesium and even calcium. Would be a good deal potatoes taste of potatoes or of c. When i read. This look at occultism from the pod and they dont taste of seaweed they taste completely normal a little bit of sea. Need didnt we let the seaweed dry the salt and sand are washed away by the rain and they get no more and then it instead of that i call that. Sometimes its hard work reviving old traditions like when the wheelbarrow almost gets stuck in the sand isnt a fan of tractors. At least its light out and thanks to the gulf stream its not that cold either the sun stays below the horizon and wont be seen directly again for a few weeks. The soil in the potato field is accustomed to the mix of seaweed and ill be. This was of the most fertile spot on the small rocky island which had one hundred inhabitants in its heyday but that was a long time ago. By two oclock its already getting down. But theres almost no better place to see the rugged peaks of the low photo work done from the lighthouse on the Little Island that lawyer as its called in the region. Demand was limited when the state put a number of light houses along the coast up for sale that lawyers to funnel into far out to sea. To commemorate its great history elaine or occasionally donates one hundred candles to the lighthouse because it was built one hundred years ago the big light has gone out but a small halogen lamp now does the job elena is often alone in the town but shes not lonely. And so for love them i feel part of all big welled up here i see the sky and the ocean three hundred sixty degrees around me or him do today have that it gives me a strong feeling of connection with the wild i can also see the stars at night that and all that still without an assist yeah. Every now and then she even sees the northern lights. Above. It saturday half past six in the morning elena is the first to get up the hours when everyone else is still asleep is her time. Going to have. Some of you i always wanted to work with my hands when i worked as a journalist and in the administration i longed for this and thats why i moved to the white house it will do to handle me not. What i want to do things like bake bread every morning more than the minute pulled out of pocket. At lunch time the next day eleanor takes us back to the mainland a journey of five nautical miles across the open ocean back to civilization. Lapland is a place of wide open spaces and freezing temperatures we experience our coldest day in the swedish town of kiruna its minus thirty five degrees celsius. We take a helicopter tour around karuna across a desolate expanse rivers and lakes are frozen over with a layer of ice half a metre thick. The snow is so cold that it barely crunches anymore and so light even a semi wild reindeer sink into. The river below us the torn a river provides the best ice in lapland its clear and blue so its no surprise that people who love the cold have settled on its banks. Even turned it into a business in this remote region which was once believed to be the end of the world it cant get cold enough for them with the best raw material all around. Elsewhere in the world snow gets cleared away but in the warehouse of the hotel on the torn a river its been piling up for twenty years now. Sophie wrote a line and is a sculptor shes creating a bedroom for paying guests. The merest tsonga five the us at their wrecked what ive called these blocks for myself that theyll be the base for that bed the green up im going to create three beds. Rest to create small relief and this could become an arctic fox. Caption dr. No two rooms are alike each is unique with its own expiring date at some point everything will flow back into the rhythm. So. As in material ice is perfect it adapts one. Snuff the force of. The next day the thermometer drops to minus thirty eight degrees celsius theres no wind no fresh snow just the icy cold. The Iron Ore Railway Line between kirana and novick continues operating between trains the tracks become a place of refuge. The reindeer wonder along the Railway Tracks and the streets the buses drive slowly behind. The reindeer have trouble finding food under the deep snow they make slow progress. And. Its so cold that victoria highness going to her son leila have to go out every morning and night to prevent their small herd from starving were in poor yes two hundred kilometers south of corona. The reindeer spend the rest of the year living outside in the fells but to go. Through the winter they need looking after with daily feeding for a few months the rain there are generally good natured but victoria neela have to watch out for their antlers nevertheless. This as i dont take care of them every day but when i do i stroke and feed them neela tells. Explains that the reindeer ataman says he likes them all. A little slack not. Victorias father is a reindeer breeder she studied in stockholm for a few semesters commuting between the city and lapland. Neela has a favorite reindeer its called apple and is harnessed for shorter trips its an arduous task because victoria can only put on a harness without gloves on and i. Always come after you after my fingers are freezing and going on a sleigh ride has fallen out of fashion these days the first thought. Was almost forgotten that even the sami woman like me thinks its cold now if you spend too much time outside without loss on having to touch on a wood so your face will be a bit cold nanina lets get going and look for food for the reindeer. Reindeer apo is quickly drawn to a tree. The who regularly had these branches are covered in lichen a real treat for india people can eat lichen too but it doesnt taste very nice got it. That this is even more out there i mean only had a few reindeer we were able to get in through the winter with the like on the now that we have ten its not enough and you know the border that will formally that other than off we connect to snip for once a week from then on port go ahead of you and i now get out of. The trip ends after half an hour on his sleigh wants to go home. People. Will do all. The songs of the sun we are about reindeer a pristine environment silver lakes and golden mountains the seasons of being on the moon. Were heading father north a thousand kilometers across the ocean. Spitzbergen is situated halfway between the north cape and the north pole an island group in the arctic ocean cold and beautiful the average and your temperature is minus five degrees celsius. By only february the sun peeks out behind the mountains sending a soft light across the horizon. The days are getting lighter again the contours of the mountain landscape visible to. The east fjord which despite its name hasnt frozen over for a long time now is steaming because warm sea water from the gulf stream meets freezing cold polar air here. When theres a High Pressure system in the wind drops its time for small trips the capital of we can call it that is situated in the valley itll be weeks yet before the first rays of sunlight reach it but its a tradition among young people in the town to walk towards the sun a few weeks earlier on the sixteenth of february l. Care and mounted to german expats im making their way towards the sun together with some friends i will see the sun today i hope if we dont get more clouds nation of nickel. How long has it been going in the valley even weve not seen it in the valley since the end of october since mid october really hot humid over since mid october. So for three almost four months i want to. See if. Some less the summit stuns five hundred meters along the ridge. Will we see the sun. Its not looking good we have this band of clouds thats come in from the west but maybe well be lucky and therell be a break in the clouds i think he could have just. The final stretch a ridge. Its not looking sunny day no unfortunately not its even started snowing flight. Geologist immediately starts uncovering the rock on top of the trolls behind. Wheres the sun there behind the trout is it to show you this. And theres the one mountain heres the other and its right here. Through here hurt. But the suns not visible. But its there you know its. Dishonest. To. The polar night lasts for mid november to mid january during that time its always dark thats when the residents of long aboon are on their own. On spitsbergen its so dark that the reindeer switch off their internal clock day and night become one it doesnt matter when they sleep awake. People need to maintain their sleep patterns but alka cope well they geologist anelka an avalanche expert have lived on spitsbergen for ten years and are old hands we visit them at ten at night its strange to think that its just as dark in the afternoon do you have different strategies for coping with the darkness. Yes which i swear by Fish Oil Like all norwegians a spoonful of fish oil every morning. Are used wine. Yes doesnt need it coffee in the morning to get going and then a lot. Light during the day and then early to bed you have to be active the dark time is a very social time theres a lot guns on sat said that thats it healthy. Its the eighth of march the official day that the sun returns to the valley the moon is bright in the morning sky it looks like it will be a clear day like every morning marty gets on his racing bike with studded tires and judges into the valley. The sun has been shining on the hillside opposite for a few weeks but a part is a party and a dates a date at noon schoolchildren come to the village Gathering Place to welcome the sun it would be nice if it showed its face for the celebration and its owner but since two thousand and five the sun has always had an on this day i miss him her no education sarahs family heritage her head her parents her superstar mother to lose some of her summers head on some other kind it was her movie you know her was. This plain wooden staircase on which ten year old syria accept a prize for best son sticker plays a special role the son is visible from there if you crane your neck. There go six you know and this is the old hospital stay away we used to say that the people who survived the darkness and sold the sun on the steps would get healthy again and so on its an old superstition that says everything will be fine when the sun returns to the valley and it is all the time all four of them but no matter how much they clamor for the sun it refuses the show itself in the valley. Someone has clearly miscalculated the time the children the younger ones in particular want to go home again but then it doesnt arrive a quarter of an hour late suddenly the adults are is excited as the little children about the start of spring at minus twenty eight degrees celsius now its really coming. Im. But its fantastic. Whats fantastic. This summer weve been without it for so long you know people often think that its dockett during the winter and that we cant do anything as a result but thats not true we have the full moon and thats our sun in the winter we take advantage of every beam of light when theres snow to see the landscape as soon as you leave town you can see very well. See the few. That. Winter in the arctic has an undeservedly bad reputation. There are people who say that even long you have been with this population of two thousand people and the same number of snowmobiles is too lively for them there are even people who let themselves be iced in. After around two hours we reached temple fjord which is covered in a thick layer of ice in early march. Stuck in the ice is an old ship frozen and immovable and deliberately so. The norden nation is a hotel ship with a captain helms woman and a cook visitors a welcome and a greeted with coffee and raisin buns. Mica is the helms woman she never gauges the ship here in early winter she makes sure every day that the ice is stable enough for the crew and visitors in the past anyone spending the winter on a ship was worried most of all that ice floes would crush it but those ships were made of wood not of robust steel like the nautilus. The ice has to be hc if a storm what a break out in the open ocean we could start to drift thats why we need the ice to be stable. Few. Feet in time to imagine that ice this thick could break. And finish it off after forty eight centimeters. But. What made you want to come here but its possible to mend it is nice to show this to other people come here to spend the night we recently had minus twenty five degrees celsius it was cold and windy so it was good we could welcome visitors with hot soup and if it is going to find. Out that it was about. What i can think of. It was very early i was going to feed jack is in charge below day here in the arctic shes baking an apple cake with apples imported from the netherlands she spent twenty years cooking for film crews in amsterdam she now appreciates the solitude. A good dog didnt even find out for reindeer and theyre really tasty too i saw polar bears here two years ago and last year as well but not yet this year i hope i will. Seem like the coolest thing to fill the coffers. Jack is guests traveled here by snow go below from the main town a journey that took two allies after the heading straight back out again a sunday out in the arctic. The dutch flag hangs proudly from the mosque it commemorates navigate a villain barons who lend to the area and the sea his name four hundred years ago micah was happy to follow in his footsteps. I love the quiet and im amazed such a monotonous landscape with its tree come as a black wide tanqueray can be so fascinating right were going to know we can say you can you can you dave into my flash and. We continue west woods across the sea to a small place at the edge of the world. Were heading to greenland the old whaling town of road a bay is our destination. In the winter at first glance everything is still buried under snow and ice forty houses fifty people with no cars and no Running Water the sea is covered in a layer of ice several meters thick a Perfect Little village with a church a school under its ideal even the cemetery has see views. The spring sun has brought a little bit of a fill with its the perfect time for short trips out on the ice. Dog sleds are the only mode of transport here it takes three hours to pick us up from the airport first across the ice then through the mountains. On the way back the dogs have to take regular breaks. Stay in and the others take good care of their dogs but they do always have a whip with the dogs are so hardy that they sleep outside in all kinds of weather even on the frozen sea. When the terrain gets too difficult the passengers have to get off this is a dangerous spot the in which call it the broken nose. Suddenly some of the dogs boat with an unmanned sled. One of the dog handlers and tells us about a detour. Is this roadway that yes why dont we go across the ice the ice is very thin its much bigger around the shore if you. Want to try to. Get. Two of us get on a sled the dog handlers are relaxed confident that the bolted dogs will come back the remaining dogs race at high speed for an hour sweating through their tongues. What theyre going to get it. At the school the teachers and students switch back and forth between danish and greenlandic the language with so many cues and the fifty words for snow. The teacher harold is from denmark hes teaching the first graders how to write their names greenland was a danish colony for a long time its only had self rule since two thousand and nine since then they have been more greenlandic names again these two boys are called in on quack little person and. Damaging or for a long time the indigenous language was frowned upon it wasnt even on the curriculum for some years during the one nine hundred seventy s. Thats changing now what will become of damage in and little person one day we ask mayor Lars Fleischer unchanged. See a great future but yes there are a few of us. And its such a big country with so many opportunities since you know what little. Put it on stuff that you notice in business can the children stay here or do they have to leave for a bigger town. And then either way theyll have a great future. Even if they want to become a pilot or a doctor they can be anything they like a. New car the cats a cat transforms the school into a place of worship with just a few small changes. Hes a Public Sector worker like almost all of the adult inhabitants of road obey. Its the eighth of april Easter Sunday only one person is outside rein in the east about for a full hour switching hands every five minutes nearly everyone else is hiding away indoors except the tireless newcomer. Says the community is pasta he himself got married in this judge and hes witnessed forty five weddings and more than twenty baptisms here or in a village thats really had a population of more than fifty the people here were converted to lutheranism by missionaries in seventeen thirty three. Hundred one nor here a few years i started here in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven twenty five years in order bay this year. Do you know if. So youre celebrating an anniversary. Youre sorry i didnt understand youre celebrating an anniversary here yes on the twenty seventh of july and. Few people go outside in this weather despite the tireless bell ringing. And i marry them as wife her daughter mia. The maillard. And steen one of the sled dog handlers they preferred to be among themselves during the easter service. The. Move. To. But thats not the case during the traditional cafe mc gathering with coffee cake and herring everyone is welcome at the home of the two teaches. Most teachers leave again after a year howden lane i have stayed. Totally through very very good here coddled. Steams we moved here in two thousand and seven staying tuckey and hunts were so nice they invited us to a dog sled race but nobody told us how far to go in the end it was thirty forty kilometers the others had ten twelve even fourteen dogs when we only had five and they crossed the finish line long before i arrived an hour later. So had they have had several cups of coffee by then they were going to clarify when we lose seven dogs and the others he is seven we can compete but if they have double the number things get tight for us. But even after five years in right away harold still loses against a local man in the races among the women almost always wins theres not as much competition. For. The. Fountain the buy in go from germany is chopping small icebergs into transportable chance after german reunification ingo and his wife emigrated to redebate the sea ice is unpalatable because its salt water but the icebergs of fresh water. Seven right here three people estimate this ice froze between a thousand and ten thousand years ago so it doesnt have a smell except in the summer when it melts thats all i think because of the oxygen thats been trapped so our stuff die useless. I think its pure ozone and its very good very pure Drinking Water because you know the probability that another human has drunk this water before and is relatively lost like a pool guy this guy that hes going. The world. The world. The world. Annamarie is the mayors wife in the village Kindergarten Teacher here shes working on a traditional garment this beaded collar weighs one point three kilograms its almost a lifes work. So when i was american at the switch over into my advice here. Mr perry but he went on to say this collar should last my daughter mia her whole life thats why i make sure to mix colors she likes with those i like the way im nowhere near done she can wear it when she has a child at the baptism and doing other festivities than it would have to go to see only at the market you know sears and Mchenry Alward the show is coming up this one is made from seal skin just like the soul were not one of the donovan thought but again we dont have anywhere. To see it the fact that the looking at the diner added you know. We create this pattern and then we die it different colors but its difficult to make it a very beautiful. And its lined on the inside and up the top with an adults. Does a dictator. We call the trousers tacky salute theres another word for them in the north sea. This is the skin of a dog and we dyed the buttons then me and it will go into the city on the farm but if i can. See. The greenlandic village of road a bay also has an entrepreneur. The fish factory had gone bankrupt when lars the mayor took it over. To hang out and we hung the halibut up to dry for around a month as it was extremely cold this year so one month wont be enough. Con the fact hasnt dripped down yet so hard you can churn you know it all morning and last took over the factory ten years ago his business idea with the dried halibut was brilliant at first but then he got competition control to factories from royal greenland and halibut greenland came along the shore in ilesa the big town near here. The price of fish started going up much to the joy of the fishermen of course fish but its hard for us to keep up with those prices. Producing here is expensive fish. In. One of the most important facilities in rather bay which has no Running Water is the shower house it was closed over easter. Now the washing machines in the towns only showers a busy in rather bay that means that six people are coming and going at the same time mariana signs in while waiting for her husband tacky whom we met during the dog sled ride because the family didnt want to have it costs fifteen krone around two neuros per person do you think thats a lot you know you can shop for forty five minutes a minute to even ask jeremy to twenty minutes. But. Everythings written down correctly and you know. When leaner and harold feel a bit claustrophobic harold takes the dogs out for a run they know joins in for a stretch and then walks home alone for a few hours. Then because the spread like our living here can be difficult if you had a stressful life before some go crazy after just a week and just want to leave because its too small for them but if you live here for a longer period you almost become addicted. To. 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