What it's REALLY like travelling OUTSIDE Longyearbyen... | Polar Bear Land | Svalbard

all of Svalbard is a place for

polar

bear

s, but I feel like the east coast is the main location for

polar

bear

s, why do you live there? This is still a question I get daily and my friends, this is why nature is pure arctic wilderness if you live somewhere. Like Svalbard, an is

land

near the North Pole, you most likely have a great appreciation for nature because I'm not sure this kind of life would be enjoyable if you don't, we happily hopped on our snowmobiles to dry off for two years and a half hour 90 kilometers one way to have lunch on the east coast of Svalbard because that is

what

life here is about, not seeing the challenges of the harsh climate as something we are working against, but rather something we can experience, so today I am going to give you one of the best Svalbard experiences: a snowmobile trip and this one takes us to the other side of the is

land

.

Come on Christoffer, we're just checking the snow now, so it could potentially be very wet or could even be drivable. in water, so just going to check out

what

it's like if it's super super wet, mainly because we have our wooden sled, which is not very good for driving in any kind of conditions other than snowy, we're going to head there. Glacier and we're going to check it out and we're going to grab our binoculars and see if we can see any polar bears here and see where we're headed on the outside. How long did it take us two and a half hours? summer Christopher, it's

really

hot, we're going to be crazy, it's a little hot today all over the strawberry polar bear place, but I feel like the code This is like the main polar bear location, so we keep our eyes open and there are seals in their eyes, which is pretty much what they do when they are around glaciers, they hunt seals and here we are, but we look around with our binoculars and we can't see any.

The trip to the east coast is about 90 kilometers or 56 miles one way we drove in somewhat white conditions which can make navigation a little difficult if we are going somewhere we have been before. We often know the way from our surroundings, but we also always travel with GPS and have clues to follow if necessary. or if going somewhere new, a GPS is incredibly important equipment when snowmobiling, here we not only need to know where to go, but we also need to avoid things like crevasses in glaciers and sudden changes in terrain. I'm flying my drone. Right now I found an obese seal and I mean he's supposed to be super fat, but this one, what have you been eating?

She is beautiful, she seems very indifferent to everything that happens. Just, you know, living a life. Oh my god, okay, move. about passing the seal oh well foreign foreign Coast there are so many huge blocks of ice look how blue this is like it's oh my god that wasn't solid this is so blue it's pretty wild to be able to walk on just a jumper in April on the coast This, which is generally a pretty cold place here, it's not like there's no wind because yes, there's a certain vibe in the air about the weather, it's so calm it feels like it's the calm before the storm.

You know, what I mean, one of our biggest obstacles in driving, which was a problem here, is that it turns so white that you can't see anything, everything just blends into one and you can't see, you can't notice any similar perception of depth or height or something, so you have no idea if you're driving down something or if, since you're driving on a glacier, you can't just fly either because there are crevasses, you know there are a lot of things, but driving slow and you know, looking around but it was a little stressful. April is very much a winter month here in Svalbard and is actually high season, but the weather can vary and in just one week we had snow storms, rain, sun, more snow, more sun. everywhere but this time of year it's all about getting out on snowmobiles, we want to experience as much of the island as possible while it's covered in snow as it's

really

our only way to get out of town whenever we are .

There's a big question that people ask out there and that is how do you go to the bathroom and do I actually have to pee right now? So I'm going to show you exactly what you have to do and it involves taking off a lot of layers, but first I need my shovel, it says that other people also, you know, travel around here and you want to keep it nice and clean, well, not clean, but you want to keep it white and pretty, you dig a little hole to relieve yourself and, if you need to poop, I mean, dig a big hole, if you need to pee, just scrape it off, remove some snow, because it's always better if you can't see me, but I'm making a little hole here.

Now the fun part of removing things begins, okay? so this and even if it's windy and it's minus 30 degrees this is what you gotta do there's a lot of layers to take off here when you gotta go you gotta go okay now to the fun part so I'm wearing a jumpsuit, but if you use a seat, you have to wear a jumpsuit with what we call one of these, what's it called, with a flap on the butt. I have one of those, which means I don't have to take off the rest because that would be bad. and always bring your tissues and anything you've cleaned up to pee in, take it home and throw it in the trash, don't leave it in the wild.

Okay, this is actually a little cold and always wear your helmet when you pee. Christopher says it's always the same, very important, oh, this is it. absolutely glorious What a feeling. I have never felt more free in my entire life. I now successfully peed and it was lovely. There's my handkerchief. I'm going to put it in my frying pan for now. You know, it's a bomb. This is my avalanche. Beacon snow in my peephole   positively lovely Christopher peed too, he didn't want me to film him crazy. Wow, if you've been on my channel for a while you'll have noticed that our winters are relatively mild   compared to other places at the same latitude and this is because the Gulf Stream brings warm water to the west and north coasts of Spitzbergen and gives these areas a milder climate with fewer drift eyes.

The East Coast, on the other hand, is not affected by the Gulf Stream to the same extent as East Pittsburgh. and the current, on the contrary, brings colder water masses with many drift tints from the Arctic Ocean, which makes the eastern parts of the archipelago have a slightly colder climate with much heavier ice conditions. Now let's go eat something, which is easier to carry when you go during the day. Trips like this are kind of dry food that you put hot water in, it's really easy and you always have like 5 10 with you so if you stock up you can eat it like boiled water for a few days.

We have a small board. real, too remote is the one that is a Norwegian brand, I think so, I think they taste pretty good, like when you eat them today, it's pasta bolognese or couscous, it has 500 calories, eh, no, 525 calories in pasta bolognese , it is 500 grams of food and it is a freeze-dried food. I prefer this one because I eat a lot of this, so the vegetarian one is the only one I haven't eaten as much. Now these days I mainly buy vegetarian food because I'm a little tired of everything I have to come here and give a really fun fact about why Christopher is tired of this because you bought popsicles and ate this as your only source of energy for maybe three years.

I didn't have a kitchen to stay in, so this was the easiest way to get food, but I ate out most of the time, so I bought one, not a pallet, but a similar box with 40 units, um, yeah, to their meals, so it tasted the same, so you had a lot of things. Don't know. I know how much water you're supposed to drink but I always make soup with it so you can drink it straight from the bottle because it's quite salty so for me making a soup with everything is perfect step one step two step open Actually three is take a knife and make a hole here to take it out, shake and bake a little tip to do it, put it in the bag, close it to save the heat and now just let it sit, this is good food, good food in the Arctic.

It's so good when we say that this is the prime area for polar bears. We did it. Christopher says yes. I need to scan the perimeter because with all these blocks of ice it is very difficult to see if a polar bear is walking around them. or you know if it's behind one and we thought, you know, listen to me, but we took a good look around before we stopped here and before we decided to hang out behind a big block of glacier because you never know, but usually trips that you book so that If you like to see little Bard and the best way to run into a polar bear at a good distance is to take a trip to the east coast there are no trips that guarantee having one and looking for one is illegal which is great, but, for Of course, when you are away from home and you are covering such great distances, the possibility of seeing one is much greater, but first, before driving with any eye, you check the area because if there is a polar bear there you do not go, they have foreigners, they have priority because so to speak we stay away from them I almost fell there I listen to The Silence Island our friend is watching Grim for us because he just had dental surgery but we told him we were going I'll be home at 6 p.m. m. and right now it's 5:30 and usually when you tell someone you're going to be home at a certain time, the alarm goes off if you're not home at that time, but what? what we bring when we go out is satellite communication, so Christopher will now use the satellites within range of his device to send him a text message and tell him that we are on our way home.

Now don't worry, we're fine. It's safe, but we'll get home a little later than we said. There is no cell service here, so the only way we can communicate is to have these within our reach or foreign satellite phones. They treat me like sunshine everywhere I go and although no one can tell it I still feel like I'm alone I'm alone leave me alone on my own we've made a stop now oh here comes Christopher with this beautiful eye piece can you tell I love them the eyes? We have 60 liters of gasoline with us and for a trip like this we use maybe between 30 liters, so 60 liters for two people.

I have learned that blurs cannot lead this is where I am the only passenger on board oh there is beauty to enjoy on this road but still I still feel that I am alone I am alone I am alone but I know what mine I am I am alone I am alone foreigner