On 29th March 2010, I left for an expedition that was different from my normal trips. For the first time in 12 years, the goal of this trip was not the mountains but the sea. A frozen sea but there was no real climbing planned this time. My first stop was Oslo. The next morning, I then flew on to Longyearbyen. This is the most northern city in the world on Spitsbergen, a group of islands north of Norway. There, I met the rest of the expedition team. In total, there were 13 of