Hiorthfjellet

Datum:

26.03.2011

© Hannah Vickers One of my most memorable days on Svalbard ever. Hiortfjellet had been one of the iconic mountains of all my visits to Svalbard since being a UNIS student in 2007, but somehow I'd never found people to do the trip up there with. But finally, during the week leading up to the hike, I found some students who were also interested in taking a trip to Hiortfjellet as well and quite fortunately some of them had snowmobiles, which made getting across Adventdalen a lot quicker! We had the perfect weather for it too. Another very sunny and warm day, although you'd never have guessed it was still -22. Anyway, a group of us - around 8 altogether, scootered out and over the fjord to Hiorthhamn and parked up beside one of the cabins. From there we followed the scooter tracks up to the TV station. I guess >>>