Reflections from 7 days in Cambridge Bay
Halu! Hello! New blog from Cambridge Bay! After our most memorable 5 day-voyage in Svalbard on board the MS...
News From Bamsebu Archive
1 year anniversary and voyage recap
1 year anniversary The Hearts in the Ice Team celebrates a 1 year anniversary as Godmothers of Hurtigruten’s Battery...
Voyage program and information, M/S Nordstjernen
An unforgettable Arctic adventure in Svalbard, from Thursday 8th September – Monday 12th September 2022, on board MS...
Arctic Immersion Expedition 8th – 12th September 2022
4 nights / 5 days voyage, invite only, the hearts in the Ice community, unites students, scientists, artists,...
We lose the Arctic, We lose the World.
Press release Svalbard, Norway and BC,Canada- May 20, 2022. Global Call to Action from Extreme Citizen Scientists to...
Why giving up is not an option
Climate Adaptation and the Power of Community By Sunniva Sorby, co-founder Hearts in the Ice This week marks the...
We are all in this together and what we need is Expedition behavior
“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his...
14-day challenge and ready for COP26
– The planet is facing a rapidly accelerating emergency, but it’s not too late to act, says Christiana...
A bark from Ettra
– Woof! Ettra here. I want to share a bit about my life at Bamsebu with you. The first winter I slept outside almost...
No days are alike
“The sky knows when it's time to snow. Don't need to teach a seed to grow. It's just another ordinary miracle today.” ...
The countdown is on
“I have no special talents, I am merely passionately curious” -Albert Einstein Its April and its Citizen...
From climate despair to climate optimism
Solstice- moving towards the light to shine the light! We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our...
Climate technology and a beautiful day
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing...
The light is back, but there is still no sea ice
“Borders, I have never seen one. But I hear they exist in the minds of some people” – Thor Heyerdahl - Life...
OPERATION ETTRA
“The ancestor of every action is a thought” --- Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s a scene in almost every western movie....
4 Polar Bear visits and a Polar Bear poop
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything...
Polar bear visits, hurricane, isolation and mental health
“Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already accomplished and what...
Ettra is coming home!
“Anything more wonderful than the polar night does not exist. It is a dream-like sight. It is a light poem of all the...
Two Polar Bears & two Polar Girls
“To seek solitude during the dark part of the year in Svalbard isn’t just about bidding farewell to civilization for...
Hello from Bamsebu – we are keeping the light on
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach...
Hello to all in our Hearts in the Ice community!
“The planet is facing a rapidly accelerating emergency, but it's not too late to act, says Christiana...
Behind the scenes – the gang of six!
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our...
Beluga whales – the great comeback story!
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can...
Emotion triggers action – what motivates us to change?
I have no hidden talents, I am merely passionately curious. – Einstein So much has changed in how we engage with each...
Lost and found – and how Hilde won a trip to Greece
If you want to build a ship, then don’t drum up men to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach...
The work we do
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essentials of life and not when I came to...
Our world of heartbeats!
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing...
Intellectual flexibility – voices from the silence
I can’t hear what you are saying, what you do speaks so loudly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Having a link to the “outside...
The other side of fear
Life here has been all about pattern disruption. The way we lived a year ago is worlds apart from the way we have...
Newborn
Saturday May 2nd we rode our Lynx snowmobiles for 6 hours from Bamsebu to the town of Longyearbyen for a quick...
The Little Bear Cub
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate...
Ordinary miracles – reflections from Bamsebu
“The sky knows when its’ time to snow, Don't need to teach a seed to grow. It's just another ordinary miracle today” -...
Recalibrating our compass
“March Madness” happens every year in North America as the best college NCAA basketball teams in the league battle it...
Expedition Behaviour – Wilderness is the great teacher!
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his...
Crisis = danger + opportunity
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response...
Tribute to Helfrid Nøis
She’s a Lady, whoa, whoa, whoa, she’s a lady…. Talking about her…she’s a lady! Sung by the legendary Tom Jones How to...
What lies beneath
I am just going outside and I may be some time Captain Lawrence "Titus" Oates Oates was a member of the ill-fated...
Time to Light things up!
What is it that is so special about Svalbard? This is a question no doubt many people have asked, including the host...
Will you be our Valentine…?
”Slow down you move too fast, you’ve got to make the morning last…. “ Simon and Garfunkel Finally, a day without a lot...
What in the world are we “feeding” ourselves?
In the 5 months since we have here we have seized every opportunity to celebrate. Celebration is at the core of who we...
Leadership
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes - Marcel Proulx One of our...
Stand by me – in the polar night
When the night has come, and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we’ll see. No, I won’t be afraid, oh I...
All we need is love
A hurricane storm is raging with wildness outside, winds gusting over 30 m/s which is close to 60 mph-120km/hr. Force...
Where can we find silence and quiet?
Where do we actually find peace of mind? Open spaces in the Arctic and specifically right here at Bamsebu (77.55...
What’s under your bed? Insights to life on 20 sqm
It’s a very real and true fact for us here at Bamsebu that we can find almost anything and everything we need right...
Tribute to the curiosity of the early pioneers!
In the north are quivering arches of faint aurora, trembling now like awakening longings, but presently, as if at the...
Time
50 plus years of preparation? Maybe we can say it like that. Seems like everything we have done in our lives, up until...
Dark Friday – and the only thing we need is fresh air
Its dark here at Bamsebu - our 20sq mtr trappers cabin. The little bit of light we do have we run outside to capture...
Training for the Olympics
Running base layer - check, wool tights over baselayer - check, wool skirt over base - check, 2 pairs of socks -...
Ripping off the veil of ‘Unconscious Bias’ around what is possible!
“How in the world can two women survive an overwintering alone together?” a question that a friend of Hilde’s asked...
Double polar bear sighting in 12 hours!
We are less than two months into our Bamsebu overwintering, so it was just a matter of time before we had our first...
For the Love of Science!
What in the world is Citizen Science and why do we do it? In its richest form “Citizen Science” has the power to...
Running in the dark, D3 and a waterfall of light!
Much of the suspenseful polar literature we have read around explorers that have endured long periods of darkness,...
We’re all vulnerable
Vulnerability is something we have all experienced in our lives. Some more than others. Vulnerability can show up in...
Our first full moon, stranded icebergs and northern lights
Bearing witness to a change of seasons is a most beautiful thing. You don’t hide from it. You observe, you experience...
Wildlife sightings and data collection
October is mating month for the Svalbard Reindeer and our sightings have been absolutely phenomenal. The strong bulls...
First week at Bamsebu
The September 13th departure from the Coal pier in Longyearbyen was sealed with a powerful performance by 14 men from...
