We have reached the shore. Thanks to the team of the AMU polar station, who transported us by pontoon from Piramiden, through the bay of Petunia to the bay of Adolf. We’ve reached the largest glacier in the area. The temperature is around 0 degrees Celsius. The sun breaks through the clouds. A strange light, as if someone has placed a filter over my eyes. Yesterday we saw polar bears not far from here. Empty and wild. No one but us. It’s fortunate there’re no bears around now. There’s a seal lying on an ice floe in the distance. A bang like a gunshot. That’s how a glacier calves. The Nordenskield Glacier. 100 years ago such a trip would have taken us months or years. Few people got to see this place. Now there are daily trips to visit the glacier and experience that polar atmosphere, even if it’s only from the deck of a ship. It is after all, wild and beautiful. Wild nature is beautiful. Glaciers are beautiful. It is hard to believe that all of this is dying. Even death is beautiful out here.