the people of spitzbergen do know how to compromise . there are more than forty different ethnicities living together on the island no more than life demands tolerance and cooperation if it's to be survived. thank you. the sporting event is one of the very few opportunities people have to socialize and meet up especially during the long arctic night. you work here. and you just visit. working often. just so mike ok and table tennis are football well ok. it was good but you got one. better asparagus now making ambitious plans to develop its own tourist industry. the abandoned mining town. will be home to the new russian tourists. and there's no people there so it's kind of like a ghost town there was one guy named toby. he tried to go for a hike so. it took him by two weeks and he had had to get. picked up by a fisherman because you have no more food left so i think you should only do it if you have a yeah. but it can only be reached in daylight and the devil is already of. the for when the polar ends and the snowmobile season begins the

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