Our friend Sam Hill returns to Sierra Leone. The hard way. There’s no way of estimating how many hours have been devoted to the question of Africa – its poverty, its wars, […]
What should we do about Africa?
Fridtjovbreen, Gullstrandfjellet, and Hisingerfjellet
The landscape equivalent of surround sound
Musings in the ice
3 October Hamnodden I’m already having trouble finding space. It’s just after 0600; the kitchen is waking up. I thought I would have time before everyone else got up. Ok. So, finding […]
The stuff of dreams
Day 2, or 3 Sky, water, snow, mountains, and light all come together, fading one into the other or standing rigidly separate. Hard lines between water and mountains and mountains and sky […]
A day of abstracts
Water, light, and movement
3 October 2018 – Day two, or is it three?
Time zones and timelines At some point during my trip, I realized that I never changed the date and time on my camera to reflect the European time zone. Photos I take […]
At the end of the day
Last impressions of the first day
Ymerbukta and Esmarkbreen
Views from a glacier front
I’m a Loser, and I’m okay with it
My journey from dead-end Cluelessness to the pursuit of happiness… In 2009 Venkatesh Rao offered up The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office,” which I’ve come to regard as […]
Esmarkbreen – not quite monochrome
Along the glacier’s edge
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