Nordenskiöld

Svenskehuset, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

In the frozen north of Spitsbergen, Nordenskiöldbreen tumbles seaward in silent motion—its brilliant blue veins slicing through layers of compressed time. This is one of Svalbard’s most striking glaciers, caught here as storm clouds pass and low-angle Arctic light glances off the ridgelines like the memory of summer.

The striped peaks in the background, shaped by epochs of uplift and erosion, mirror the glacier’s slow drama. Together, they form a landscape that feels less like Earth and more like a myth in progress.