Attached pictures from loading equipment last week. I’ll be in that town on Sunday, then ski-plane to the site much further north. This next link is from the height of...

Sunday morning. Went to Orthodox services in both the (new) city church; and the historical reconstructed original fort from 1564. Bought an icon card of Saint Antony. Both it and...

Sunday morning: Went to Orthodox service in main church, also in reconstructed medieval church (pic). Was blessed by priests, twice. May need it, because of evening news. Afternoon: open-air festival...

Some of you have asked about ECW’s. Like all other equipment, I run them through a checkout in advance: one does *not* want to find that something is missing at...

Early phone call: “Fly!”. Quickly dress in ECW’s, pack bags, in car to airstrip 9 AM. Weather in Salekhard is clear, crisp, -13’C. Load stuff into plane (pic 1289). Pilot...

Leaped out of plunging helicopter onto top of burning skyscraper, in order to prevent nuclear secrets from falling into the hands of the Mafia; Complimented an elegant lady in a...

Well, we *didn’t* get to Bely Island. But we *did* have an Aethalometer on hand – which I certainly wasn’t going to allow to sit in a box until summer....

Time to go home, done as much as we could. Before I came here, Salekhard seemed impossibly exotic, ridiculously far away, and exactly on the opposite side of the world...

I am on my way back to Salekhard.  I arrived at LAX with plenty of time for the connection, but was told that I could not use the United lounge...

I arrive in Salekhard. It is green, cloudy, cool and raining. I’m in England! Well, not really, because I am also clearly in Russia. Although the city is obviously the...

The airstrip is covered in … grass. We will take off on wheels, and land on water. No snow, no skis. It has not yet occurred to me, what the...

Bely Island is the first place I have ever been in my entire existence, where I actually felt a visceral fear for my life. To date, I have not chosen...

The science setup on Bely is excellent. The Aerosol Shed was erected from prefabricated panels in April, on the end of several hundred meters of electrical cable at a location...