The Arctic Sea. Despite its geographical proximity to the North Pole, this most northern sea is full of both mystery and colour. Life-threatening sub-zero temperatures, permanent ice cover, glaringly bright summer nights and fiercely dark winters combine to create both magical moments and extreme dangers, these elemental forces pose the most adverse of conditions and impossible challenges of unfathomable dimensions. For the german magazine "mare", Gueorgui Pinkhassov travelled to these extreme latitudes eight times. Aboard a mail boat he cruised the Norwegian fjords, visited the Nenets people of...
