Well… our time here is coming to an end (by far too fast), and I just would like to introduce some snapshots how life works… In the last post you have already seen how mosquito works. Here is an impression how avalanche hazard mitigation works in Khibiny mountains (credits of Zuzin, 2006): Alternatively, there is […]

Having another of these bright and awesome sleepless almost-midsummer-nights we thought it may be useful to get into science, to approach quantification and measurement. Just to be politically correct, of course. Well, and since we are going to collect data for risk assessment, we are on our way to a specific roadside census – there […]

Adapting to the polar day conditions we tried to settle down and getting organised: between leisure there are lots of things to do, such as – accessing parts of the Russian avalanche literature with a particular focus on the Khibiny region, – collecting data from the local Centre for Avalanche Safety (CAS), – visiting the […]

So finally, we made our way through the Northwestern part of this country, passing Saint Petersburg (Санкт-Петербург) and the wonderful region of Karelia (Карелия), and then arriving after a train ride of almost 33 hours in Apatity (Апатиты) this morning. Northern Karelia, around midnight: Over long distances the railway is single-tracked only: From Apatitiy to […]

Hi all there This is a blog from the ARCTIC RISK project to be carried out at the Khibiny teaching and research station of Lomonosov Moscow State University. On our way to Khibiny we just arrived in Moscow to organise the last administrative things… Here is a short impression of Moscow State University, our host […]