Home to polar bears, the midnight sun and the northern lights, a Norwegian archipelago perched high in the arctic is trying to find a way to profit from its pristine wilderness without ruining it.
The Svalbard archipelago, 1,300km from the North Pole and reachable by commercial airline flights, offers visitors vast expanses of untouched nature, with majestic mountains, glaciers and frozen fjords. Or, the fjords used to be frozen. Svalbard is now on the frontline of climate change, with the arctic warming three times faster than the planet.
The local coal mines — the original reason for human settlements — have closed