1300 kilometers from the north pole. in winter it stays dock for months and in summer it's constantly light citizens of any country can live and work about without a visa, many a fascinated by life out here in the arctic blue. this is kind of nice if i just know 9 to 5 job, you're out in nature and feel almost humbled by this past experience bite. ah, filipino america runs a cleaning business here in fall back on the northernmost edge. if europe he has plenty of work because tourists have finally returned work or job more money. better. morning housekeeping. while still in the philippines, he heard that this remote location deep inside the arctic circle has well paid jobs and no visa restrictions. it's open to anyone who wants to work here. he set out to begin his new life. 10 years ago. first thing we arrived in there bought and then a sold the place and in the kind of business there's, there's no trees 1st, then i didn't feel like the gain of call in the 1st they mean a year out of the airport and then called it's called sober, called in manila, he used to sell car insurance, but it was a struggle to feed his family. now he cleans up after others. he says it's a good job. apart from when hotel guests behave badly. as the drunk something and then the there's sometimes getting more leg broken tv or glasses. it's great. yeah, i am proud of michelle that they and do the great job with work. oh mm . okay. well he lives in long. yep. ian with just 2500 residence. it's the largest town ins fall bought. this footage was filmed earlier in the year when there was day line 247. after 2 years of karone of iris pandemic, and no tourists visitors of finally returning to sal bad. that's a relief to christian, brutal to. he's a to a guide from germany and runs his own business, catering for germans speaking to a groups. he used to work as a school teacher in germany's black forest 10 years ago when he was about to qualify for a lifelong job guarantee he took off for the arctic and state knowledge version of kind of that i think on the back that i wasn't even 30 and yet, and i just couldn't imagine doing that same job right until i retire us. those for like i'm a bit restless, done. but at 1st this was more of an attempt to broaden my horizons at the moment. just for a year. i need to plant the stuff, i never thought it would become a new life concept of offered his brother, mario, and sister in law, miriam, a visiting in a few days they'll embark on a one week expedition with other tourists. today they're off to find a good place to camp. one's fall bad, you need to carry a weapon. residence here, share the archipelago with around 3000 polar bears get and child on is relevant here. every decision you make carries, wait, and given the sun, you're dependent on your equipment working good on knowing how to use it and having everything with you. you then told him that any decision you make can have terrible consequences once one and the fact that every action counts in this also very harsh environment is something that really fascinates me here. the current of ours pandemic hit him and his company hard, the locked down, and the lack of tourists were both nerve wracking and costly did its via the vanity . those 2 years were a huge challenge from a dr. young. at 1st we thought we'd lose one or 2 months of the season, and then in summer it would start up again. but then summer came home there in the fall in the winter l is it. and we realized that the following winter in summer would be canceled to wisdom, and we thought, how much longer can we do this and shopping? because not he's now hoping for a bumpy here to get the business back on it's feet. but 1st, the 3 will need to invest many hours to find the right camping spot for the to a group out here in the great white vastness. this couple also work is to guides, at least tennis from belgium and her husband lou slippery from france. and they're preparing for the arrival of their baby daughter do in just 6 weeks lighting system . i think you're miss, maybe the q of the hub in my hand, ah, being pregnant ins, foul bad is a particular challenge. with no maternity clinic, pregnant women have to go to the mainland to give birth. at some point, when i got contractions in january, we got a bit scared of her. and or the delivery ends. we know that the system here is that you get, they've, i created with the plan, but it still takes a few hours. so if, if you are after 24 weeks when the baby could survive, you still need to be recreated pretty fast. if you want to have a chance of keeping that baby life, so that's when i oh yeah, i realised the limitations of living of hearing. definitely that's it's, it's not a usual place to go through it. say she plans to travel to the norwegian mainland 3 weeks before the birth. elise doesn't want to leave any sooner because the island has given her the piece she so desperately needed. her daily that the huskies are a little more arduous right now, but then nothing compared to her previous job as a doctor working in the emergency room in belgium. 3 years ago, she suffered burnout. has so many patients to see not enough doctors to see them. so you end up with a crazy, broken on load every day. i had never been kind of an edge all the time and that's not me. i fell asleep while driving and that scared me really a lot as well. at some point it was just not possible to keep on going or anything . so she decided to visit her boyfriend lou, who was already living on file bars largest island shits berg, and she was captivated by the island and extended her stay. and then during the 6 months i felt even martin was the wide life of landscapes, the community. when you need something, you just post a message on the group of town and say, i think pretty impressive to have such a tight community all that way. for nurse, she began a new life as a to guide until the 19 almost forced them to abandon their dream. because here any one who can't work has a problem. ah, meanwhile christian brutal has spent more than 3 hours searching for a suitable location to camp. off to driving 70 kilometers, the group sees the 1st place that looks like it could be suitable. they need good ski slopes and wind for snow, causing that now reached an altitude 500 meters. isn't fuckers nicholson glitter? no, we're no longer on the glacier. and here, so their, their, and their dada, we have sudden drops into the next valley west. i want to get in. it's nice to talk to the vin for the. and the wind actually pushes you towards those precipices, for the fire, for dead them with i told the wind might not always come from that direction. wow, it's cold. but they, it, and style won't forget, on the if the wind always loads towards those drop things can get dangerous. answering the, especially for beginners. okay? because they'll be pulled by the wind to where it drops down suddenly. so we have to be really careful. has divers luxury surf was? is the sun shiny, gonna get it on the no forget it has a look. it's not even 30 centimeters. the rising centimeter need more often unmade, though we need about a meter depth and for some 2 meters would be better. but then you can easily dig down for the town in good standing height and your 10 to so and build a nice igloo insurance eagle. bon con. they're planning to go camping with 10 visitors out here in the snow at minus 10 degrees celsius and without a warm shower. guys, long as my hot off the stay. sure. on getting up in the morning is tough. it will all stay don't even, but you're getting up in this landscape and, and this amazing view vague and you warm up quickly once you start moving off of amazon. and it's just an incredibly intense experience in nature, nobly into is that wordiness it's a beautiful garden. yeah. mesa but then it dropped straight down to like the view. yeah. yeah. beautiful with the crevasses back there either. but it's no good. both safety and the scenery are important. they're hoping for better luck on their next stop. the visitors, the g to arrive in a few days. heading out into the wilderness is what most tourists come here for. the fmla garzo that prospect holds no attraction. he doesn't have time anyway. i do wonder because if it's i and i'm busy again, i think the war war they're missing working. and then even if i'm off from the dell of work, i also helping me business to clean up that. so i didn't have nothing dole dover with there yet. he often work 6 days a week and still has to turn some jobs down. he's hoping to in a lot of money by the summer as he's going on his 1st trip back to the philippines in 10 years. that either will because it's been going there of you. you must, they've money, but i like the defendant and then it's good because i, it's been a lobby, may been go back to my country. every one is ok. i don't liked then close the door. his last room for the day. while out he often live streams video for family and friends back home. his comment show how otherworldly the snow covered landscape seemed to his relatives. let's say again as a hi hello, how are you all there that is your brace. nice brace, beautiful place. and then it's gold. and then alabama. i know we are a number of filipinos living in salvas lost their jobs during the pandemic without an income or state help, they were forced to leave. now, more workers are urgently needed that way i going, but though my country, i just invite lays as to what we can do. now i don't accept private housing, meaning because i don't have enough people around a 100 filipinos currently live here, even though it's cold. this area by the sea is a meeting place for impromptu barbie case. but me wanna get the saw ever and also brought his 2 sons over 23 year old edwin and 18 year old jericho. since i've been here for 5 years, and i always see the same thing as every day when i go out. so basically most of my casino or my friends in philippines, they used to go out in the beach or like, go out in a mall like hanging out around like that. but here i just always have my room playing of heater. it's still boring for it. i feel like fine now yet. yeah. but he says leaving here isn't easy. he'd like to go to university. but for the subjects he's interested in, he'd need to move to the mainland and be fluent in norwegian. so far he's made little progress with the language. ah ah, is to hold out on the edge of town, there were number of facilities for sled dogs. huskies are only allowed to be let off the leash in compounds like these. the heavily pregnant elise is relieved to have her friend franka lighter, a helping to day. the 3rd, beth, they looked like folk is when they are being with us and years and temperatures as low as minus 30 a not for every one. then there are the many months of darkness from late october to mid february. there's no sun or daylight here at all. oh for we're just listen to what my body wants to do and how to sleep all the time that it wouldn't work. it that yeah, you mess up your with them them. they really struggle inadequacies and depression wise or yeah, it is not easy. but usually we reverse our schedules and we are more awake during the night and we go and sleep in their early morning and sleep until noon. well, it's night. i'm 247. so yeah, i was pretty change. anything if you're awake up for 7 in the morning or 7 and the night except off at the shop is close. i really easy to forget about justin. some people have read the trouble to handle the dark season for meets warned of summer season. that is difficult because during the summer season it's her too much lighter night on sleep enough. and when i don't sleep enough, they get smell about has more than the whole months of nonstop daylight. from late april to late august, please and lou select pitches they took to hang another step and getting their apartment ready for their baby. their dream of living in the act, it was almost shattered when they both lost their jobs and their income joined. the locked down, they had virtually no state benefits with the cost of living is high though is different just because for me it was not done any person's age contract that was only on was called free lunch here was so this kind of contract doesn't gave me and the unemployment benefits in all way. so i was basically just getting nothing so it was a lot of trying to survive and using whatever we had on the bank account and, and worrying money and putting on the whole the loans that i had to take back as well. that too is part of immigrating to small bought. when times a tough, you have to find a way. elisa lu were on the verge of giving up when finally the restrictions were east. quarter almost $400.00 persons, both of us. when every single company that could give us work, we took the work. so last summer i worked as well, 2 contracts in the same time, many, many hours in down. i didn't seem numbers of hours and the hospital doing something that they have. then you consider okay, left eye drops everything and they left everything to come here. and then if i have to pull back, what do i do after that? i was a bit stressful. i say me, it's now 2 o'clock in the morning while heading out to a 2nd location, christian broke down. we had to replace a broken belt on his snowmobile. they drive for another hour and a half after a 170 kilometers and 11 hours on the snowmobile they arrive at the 2nd location. this time it's a winner ali, let's see. looks beautiful, daughter in addition to the spectacular view of the criteria, all some feet like the depth of the snow. for example. dark wood over 90 centimeters. sure. great. then guns, perfect and left of it, you'll never find the perfect spot emma. we don't want to nit pick about via got him on i think it's definitely going to be amazing. does it gunners and yet i'm fine. with spell bod is the best place to live according to after and regard. hope. the most important thing for him is that his job is paid. well, the fact that there's only one supermarket, he, it doesn't bother him. 11 things even by here. but maybe this is him. you can even find important tropical fruits, vegetable via here. though a 400 basis and deliveries even by a priest and dinner 3 keyless a bryce if and prepare food for when the building are for your flow. finally, if any product sells out the shelves can stay empty for a while. the ship bringing fresh supplies only comes once every 10 days. the next one isn't due till the following monday as a friend learns i. on monday i was on an agenda for my salary here. if it's i that i in that really big if you're working the philippines, it's a salary of the like a senator ranger all is in the middle of the road. and under one if you hit that animal, police is over b for the past few months. he's had to manage household chores on his own. as he and his wife had separated, he mostly cooked filipino dishes tonight. he's making chicken adobe with ginger and garlic. todd, now because of the way there. oh, my wife, have another woman, little dinner. the letter and then i forget a just a free week when i went back and then it you know, playing z. yeah. we're playing together. little blame again. they and again, with the, from, i don't know, different places from germany from then from russia and engineering was thing a time for that is going that will run because the what is repair. oh, okay. that i know i haven't been christian, brutal company bought a house at the center of long year. been thanks to help from investors. it was a gamble. and shortly after the purchase, the pandemic, it literally stuck. it's beautiful. obviously there's a huge amount of debt to pay and we couldn't do that during cove littlest school. it house the whole, we needed, visitors, guessed it, it was never bothered that it was no safety net here until coveted. then as an exception, businesses were allowed to claim state assistance, including those in the tourism industry. but that only applied to no wage in firms than direct confidence. this will not when your direct competitors are getting up to a 100000 euros and subsidies. okay, and you're getting nothing, just because one of the owners there is norwegian and you're not the social, it's certainly puts ident on the idea that fall apart is international and every one is equal and needs to be treated equally in this place. on the bottom, it felt like a major discrimination through to this coming year will following the locked downs, they need to catch up. and thankfully things are busy. despite that they've decided to take some time out from work for being with friends with her. and now we're getting blasted in the real season again. mm. for me is like okay, one is doesn't actually really season. yeah. it is not a year from today to tomorrow. it fully started again, but then as well, we have more people coming here. it's more crowded, we never had the situation that, but it's 2 years of a situation where people not to be able to exactly they work here is very much seasonal. when the tourists are here, there's little time for friends, but they do value the relationships they have by them what you're writing about it. but the fact that we're in the super rough environment also brings it to be. this is people that not only are you friends with also, that actually could save your life when you're going on for. and that brings it to another level than a regular friendship with a friend, legato, some fun life on the island. less exciting, but they wouldn't want to be in the philippines either. it's just way too dangerous there for me to face or to leave a lot of people and the side street that too bad, thanks to you. so they do snatching people like that were while over and again and your sides and then ask for your money. you don't have any choice to but to get it instead getting hurt or me it's, it's a good place still bring making here because it's the same place and then there's no but people her and in. yeah, i think it's a good place for my kids here. the role i this is this good to month. yes, right now with long nearby and normally gets around $70000.00 visitors a year. it used to be mainly a coal mining town. many believe tourism has a bright future here at least included during this film. shoot. she was working hard on a new project, the magnus, to go really well live together with 3 friends. she was preparing to open a rather unusual cafe. so this is bank via husky usa coffee. so basically it's a place where people can meet the huskies. we have a lot of people in town, but usually ask where they can meet dogs without taking a dog sledding turn. it looks almost ready, but we still see everything through but they made it on the cafe has since opened to the public. at least his dream of living in small bod, where she recovered from burnout almost didn't work out. now she has a new challenge of living with a baby in the difficult environment of the arctic. but i still think weaken mom esther was through all of it. them yeah, find solutions for every single thing that come always right. will with it. i will about brett, happy about it. i am when a friend regards her visits, the philippines, he plans to go to some of the countries popular beach resorts, something he could never afford to do before. his family now sees him as a wealthy businessman from europe needs of that i have the money and again, it's some fancy restaurant and then with other bits research like that and have fun of birthday party ended. and there were no late in church late expenses. ah, and on one to stay as long in the philippines, because for me it's hard, you know, warm is warm in the philippines. you know may, may, may, buddies, is a dot here goal and didn't maybe bagel, but the good is as long as a calling to a vacation. it may be late. or maybe i am sick for that. ah, yes, once you're here. last week we may christian, brutal one last time before his departure to the snow camp. his to regroup has arrived. yeah, i said, i'm glad to assist you to fulton yet, and i'm very thankful that it's working again that we have tourists coming and see it will me and that we don't have to bid farewell to the livelihood that we built up here. august under insufficient for a long time. we just didn't know. in the long side, it feels like the worst of the crisis is now behind them. but obviously off even off, that's what i very much doubt that i'll do this forever, is often because it's a very busy life and it's hard work. and it's like you have no roots to think i was nice to so i don't think it will be forever. but for the time being for here, cynthia, fall bad is open to all those who are willing and able to work hard and cope with the extremes. most migrants move on after a few years for them, the archipelago in the arctic is a beautiful but temporary home ah ah, ah, how to rescue food and fall. india is huge, wasted 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