Thoughts swell in the encounter with Svalbard’s exciting wildlife, history and fascinating cultural monuments located across the archipelago. What better way to take in the magnificent experience than on an Arctic mountain top?

Your hike will start in Nybyen, Longyearbyen’s highest point. From there, the route takes you through the valley towards a glacier. This is a stable glacier, so crossing in to reach Sarkofagen is both safe and an incredible experience. Let your guide go first and lead the way so all you have to do is take in the moonscape. If you are lucky you might find fossils more than 60 million years old on your way!

Explore Isfjord Radio with a full day hike along the old radio poles of Svalbard. Use Griegfjellet (Grieg Mountain) as a significant orientation point as you pass through the Arctic tundra, and if you are lucky, spot the walruses thriving in the icy waters. As a golden rule, you should never disturb the wildlife on Svalbard, but wildlife is easy to observe from a safe distance. You will enjoy lunch at an old hunting lodge while learning more about the hard hunting life in the north.

Travel with a hybrid-electric catamaran to Pyramiden, a former Russian mining establishment that's become a ghost town. Uninhabited since 1999, this eerie but picturesque settlement at the end of the world was abandoned just as it was, and today functions as a living museum. However, the visitors to this museum are mostly seabirds, arctic foxes and the occasional polar bear. Today you will get to walk through the town and daydream yourself away trying to imagine how it must have been living here while it was an active mining community. In this ghost town, you will find cups still left on the tables, skiing equipment in the hallways and newspaper cuttings on the walls.