In case I hadn't already known.
Today a Saami lady from Norway invited me to help butcher some of her reindeer, and I may have found an opportunity to go to the Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Russia!
And I skiied for two hours on skis that a Norwegian lent to me. (Within an hour of my arrival in Norway back in December, I went for a walk and met a fellow who not only lent me skis for two months, but also took me that day to an (Ant)Arctic festival commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Roald Amundson's South Pole expedition!). And then I took a wonderful Finnish sauna. At 80-100 deg C, it was a lot hotter than the Russian banya, which reaches only about 40-50 deg C.
I was looking through some photos and found this one of a Greenlandic fisherman going to his boat in mid-September snow. I couldn't resist sharing it. What a place! What a people!
Today a Saami lady from Norway invited me to help butcher some of her reindeer, and I may have found an opportunity to go to the Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Russia!
And I skiied for two hours on skis that a Norwegian lent to me. (Within an hour of my arrival in Norway back in December, I went for a walk and met a fellow who not only lent me skis for two months, but also took me that day to an (Ant)Arctic festival commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Roald Amundson's South Pole expedition!). And then I took a wonderful Finnish sauna. At 80-100 deg C, it was a lot hotter than the Russian banya, which reaches only about 40-50 deg C.
I was looking through some photos and found this one of a Greenlandic fisherman going to his boat in mid-September snow. I couldn't resist sharing it. What a place! What a people!
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