The season actually begins long before you get to the field. A proposal more than one year in advance, the logistics, permissions, equipment, flights, etc., done by the great folks at the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat. Even with all this preparation things can go wrong! Upon arriving the glaciology group headed by Per Möller has to pay for their excess baggage. But he doesn’t look too unhappy, does he?

Vicky Pease, Stockholm University