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Svalbard August 2018
Prince Karls Island along
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Tracking Tour most of Prince Karls Island along

Prince Karls Island is about 100 km long and 10-20 km wide

Habour in Longyearbyen at start with "The World"
Getting on shore near Richardlaguna
3 persons and 6 dogs had to use a dingi to get on shore

 

start walking for crossing the island over to the west coast

 

 

 

 

 

"Rotax" with his dog pack

 

 

Rotax and Stubben

 

 

 

 

 

namesless lake in the center of the island

 

 

Stefan & Erik

 

 

 

 

 

Ingvild

 

 

Tiger

 

 

lunch selfie

 

 

Camp 1

 

 

at Millerbreen

 

 

Miller Glacier

 

 

tundra

 

 

flat tundra

 

 

a lonly walker on the wide tundra slopes

 

 

 

 

 

lunch break

 

 

Erik

 

 

Stefan

 

 

Ingvild & Stefan

 

 

Raptus

 

 

one big stone on the tundra

 

 

the Vatn's

 

 

easy navigation ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Camp 2

 

 

 

 

 

Eriks breakfast

 

 

Erik

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingvild and all our 6 dogs

 

 

always one dog without dog pack

 

 

headding south all the way

 

 

 

 

 

Normanndalen

 

 

Stubben & Raptus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dogs got crasy of all reindeers

 

 

Camp 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dead reindeer, died by a fishing net

 

 

old whale swirl

 

 

GoPro, a happy walker and Stubben

 

 

Zeipel & Rotax

 

 

Camp 4 at a flywreck from the 60's

 

 

french flywreck from the 60's

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GoPro

 

 

 

 

 

tierd Tiger

 

 

Ingvild and Laban's

 

 

tiered gang

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the big slope at the southern part of Prince Karls Island. We used a whole day for crossing...

 

 

Camp 5

 

 

the big slope towards north. Spitsbergen on the right side

 

 

 

 

 

bonfire to mark our position for pickup

 

 

Martin & Kristin was the pickup

 

 

on way home ...

 

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