East Coast Hike 2013

To reach the East Coast of Spitsbergen has become a dream for many people.

Isolated and wild, far away from the settlement, and hard to get to in summer.

Our East Coast Hike is a tour through the high arctic that leads you to the remote East Coast of Spitsbergen – a place where no one else goes!

In the course of these two eventful weeks you‘ll hike from Longyearbyen through Advent Valley, Esker Valley until you reach Aghard Bay at the East Coast of Spitsbergen.

The way back will lead us on a different route trough Kjellströmvalley and Reinvalley.

On your way you will experience the colourful tundra in autumn, walking on carpet-like grass and spoting grazing reindeers, which are by the end of summer -- big and fat.

You will feel the wind, sun, rain and maybe snow on your face and cross stony riverbeds and glaciers and in the evening you will fall asleep like a little baby.

That is more than a hiking trip – that’s the experience of a lifetime!

During the entire tour from Longyearbyen to the East Coast and back you will cover 170 km while walking.

Every day will surprise you with different experiences, the horizon will change daily, every day you‘ll see a different landscape and sleep at unlike places.

On our daily stage we will carry all our equipment in our backpacks. The camp will become our home and this will be placed every day on a different sight.

You will experience a complete contrast to your normal everyday life.  Hiking like it should be!

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