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Pole to Pole
Day 6: Kap Wik to Longyearbyen
The rest of the journey is less eventful. The slopes are not as fierce, and the snow is turning to slush in some of the valleys. It's becoming almost routine to turn off one glacier onto another, to roar up snowbound mountain passes and see the seals plop back into their ice-holes as we cross the fiords.We stop at the spot where Patti had an adventure on the way up to Ny Alesund. She lost her way in a 'white-out' and was not found for almost an hour. I hope this isn't an omen for the long journey ahead.
Although we make fast progress towards Longyearbyen, the weather has not finished with us. Turning into the broad valley that leads to the town we are hit full in the face by a blizzard of stinging wet snow and as Heinrich accelerates for home it makes for a hard and uncomfortable end to the ride.
After five and a half hours' travelling we see through the murk the first lights of Longyearbyen, and the snowmobiles screech clumsily along the wet highway.
It's half-past ten and we have reached our first town, 812 miles from the North Pole.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Pole to Pole
- Day: 6
- Country/sea: Norway
- Place: Longyearbyen
- Book page no: 22
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