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Mud Hits at Ship Time FREE icepeople The world's northernmost alternative newspaper Vol. 5, Issue 20 June 4, 2013 www.icepeople.net Whiteout Christmas: Major snowstorms hit Svalbard during week before holiday Mud hits at ship time Page 4 Road closures due to landslides, flooding of mooring boat muck up arrival of cruise ship season “ By MARK SABBATINI Much of the old settlement is Editor located in landslide-prone areas. It's not like there's a good time for road- closing landslides and a sinking boat, but there - Vigdis Hole, Bydrift certainly could be a better one than both hap- response statement to study pening just as Longyearbyen needs them most. High temperatures Wednesday (June 5, re- ” flecting a delayed press time) triggered a series of slush avalanches that forced the closure of ROBERT the roads to Svalbard Airport and Mine 7, plus HERMANSEN others, according to Marianne Aasen, head of Bydrift, the city's infrastructure agency. Traffic on the airport road is being detoured onto a dirt Multimedia: Band's road through the harbor area until further no- documentary about tice, while the mine road remained closed to Pyramiden debuts heavy vehicles at press time. LONGYEARBYEN LOKALSTYRE Page 3 See CLOGGED, page 3 A mudslide blocks the road to Svalbard Airport, forcing traffic to detour on the harbor road this week. Inspired by scars of Utøya Young survivors of July 22, 2011, bates that persist after the tragedy. An award- winning book offering a startling portrait of massacre show harsh impact of their physical and psychological wounds is a injuries in award-winning book statement of lingering pain for some, a decla- ration of healing for others. By MARK SABBATINI "I wanted to be a part of project because I Editor had something I wanted to say," said Viljar It's a stark instance of images too powerful Hanssen, 19, a Longyearbyen resident at the for words, although some of the latter – such as time who was nearly killed after being shot "after Utøya, I'm no longer afraid of death" – five times. "The scars don't bother me because deliver a mighty wallop as well. that is a part of it." Young survivors of the July 22, 2011, Those scars above the eye he lost are fully ANDREA GJESTVANG / MOMENT shooting at the youth camp that killed 69 peo- exposed in the book "En Dag i Historien" (One Viljar Hanssen, 19, shows scars from being shot ple are letting their blemishes tell a story some- Day in History) by Andrea Gjestvang, which in the head in a book about the Utøya attack. times overshadowed by political and legal de- See IMAGES, page 4 Inside A howling 18 hours on the edge Seven dogs harnessed to sled Man wins race; woman wins bigger in crevasse uninjured after long Page 2 ordeal without food or water Headlines from Svalbardposten By MARK SABBATINI - Store Norske: Layoffs for 70 of 380 workers - Longyearbyen gets first taxi for wheelchairs Editor - Two new reporters named; 15 apply for editor Seven sled dogs trapped on the edge of a crevasse for 18 hours without food or water Page 3 were rescued by helicopter Saturday and, being Weather forecast used to a harsh working environment, resumed Page 3 their five-day expedition soon after "as if noth- Events calendar ing happened." MARTIN MUNCK / GREEN DOG SVALBARD The accident occurred when a whiteout Seven sled dogs trapped on the edge of a Page 4 See TRAPPED, page 4 crevasse at Kjepasset await rescuers Saturday. Page 2 June 4, 2013 Who's to blame and how The biggest winner? Look behind the winner to express your wrath NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE Editor Mark Sabbatini Copy Editor Brennan Purtzer Principal of principles Kristan Hutchison Psychiatrist Irene Gallion Mailing address Icepeople Vei 210 -2- 13 Longyearbyen, Svalbard Sandmo accepts life, death sardonically 9170 DISSENTER, from page 1 Norway Telephone Norway: +47 41 51 46 38 Mainland town claims to be top U.S. +1 (970) 673-4472 MARK SABBATINI / ICEPEOPLE Manu Kauppila of Finland leads about 40 racers up the first portion of the annual Spitsbergen per-person telethon giver, a title E-mail Marathon on Saturday. He maintained his lead and was the overall winner with a time of two hours, held by Longyearbyen for years [email protected] 47 minutes and five seconds, about 15 minutes ahead of the second-place finisher. The women's winner was Hilde Solland Plassen, 45, of Karmøy, pictured immediately behind Kauppila at right, Web site whose time of 3:11:17 beat the previous women's record by 30 minutes. A total of 195 people from www.icepeople.net a record 21 countries participated in full- and half-marathons, and 10K and 3K courses. Icepeople is published weekly (or thereabouts) on Tuesdays (or thereabouts), with printed copies available free on a limited basis in Icesheet Longyearbyen. Additional printed copies are available locally and by mail upon request. There's more! Visit www.icepeople.net Random bits of the week's weirdness: Charges are on an "at cost" basis. for the complete story. In honor of the first cruise of the year arriv- ing this week, we're leading things off with Copyright stuff something sure to disenchant a large percent- age of visitors as it's turning out to be a Briefly Original contents of this publication can be "bumper" year for whale hunters in Sval- reproduced for non-commercial purposes free bard and elsewhere in the region, according of charge if Icepeople is credited as the to Lofotposten. A catch of 180 whales was re- Cruising: Getting out of source. The original writers, photographers ported as of Monday, up from 118 a year ago at and other contributors retain their rights to all the same time. Hunters snagged 84 whales dur- danger, but into 'death?' published works. ing the past week, up from 54 a year ago, with PHOTO COURTESY OF PAAL LUND Another cruise season is about to embark 30 of them from Svalbard. Prices are also Slush fiend: Paal Lund makes the last skiing full speed ahead in Svalbard, but the smiles of Corrections policy strong, with hunters getting 35 kroner per kilo- weekend of spring an awesome-looking one. those greeting passengers aren't being shared gram as of Monday, "It seems that there is by a lot of industry executives these days. When we screw up you'll know about it – on good demand in the market for meat and whale ours) as the Norwegian Arctic Philharmonic They took a blow last month when Britain the front page. One of the big complaints meat is at its best at this time of year," said Per Orchestra christened a snow-and-ice stage issued a warning telling travelers cruising here about newspapers is they tend to bury Rolandsen, a member of what translates in En- at Breinosa (and a few other spots) during is too dangerous. That warning may be re- corrections and clarifications deep inside glish as Norwegian Raw Fish Organization. the last weekend of May for a performance where few people who read the original article That means fresh meat is making one of its oc- to be featured in photo and video promos. casional appearances at Svalbardbutikken "We are perhaps the coldest orchestra you Reuters visit, weird oil story, while UNIS partner in see them. If we need to fix something, an alert new petrolium center box on the front page will state what story is in (frozen is generally available year-round), al- know just today, but we're going to get the error and where the full correction is printed. though the retail price is 169 kroner per kilo. coolest results," an entry at their Facebook Still, that's roughly average compared to the page declares … Still, our "wins the "moderate" 4.7 quake June 1, 2013 at 2:15 pm GMT/ other animal carcasses … Lest visitors think internet" prize this week (Svalbard version) UTC , north of Svalbard, no map image available Submitting material Svalbard's uncultured, we did just host the goes to Paal Lund for his airborne acrobat- coolest orchestra around (their wordplay, not ics during Toppturfestivalen 2013 last week- 10 percent less booze than 2008 Letters, columns, photos and other material end at Trygghamna. A few hundred photos of are welcome, but we can't offer pay for the event are at http://tinyurl.com/m65renv … renting out homes for eclipse published items since nobody here is getting At the internet's other extreme is a "Twitter paid at the moment. Submissions in electronic fights reach new heights" news item about bear raids camp form (text, Word documents, JPEGs, etc.) are Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his highly preferred, although typing and/or main election opponent, Progress Party scanning of items will be considered on a per- leader Siv Jensen, in a snipefest this week. It's case basis. We reserve the right to edit the usual liberal/conservative babble, with our submissions for length, clarity, accuracy, libel neighborhood getting a nod as Jensen accuses MARK SABBATINI / ICEPEOPLE and other reasons, but we will also make PHOTO COURTESY OF NOSO the PM of closing budget gaps "through in- Marathon ordeal: It's more like 42 centimeters every reasonable effort to contact the author Pretty, but the acoustics suck: The orchestra's creased oil tax that stops development in the than 42K and they have motors, but we'd call this about any changes prior to publication. formal wear also puts style above substance. north." It's at http://tinyurl.com/lndxfox. a challenge on par with the ski race itself.
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