Over The Snows to Nowhere

Svalbard - Fragments and Images digitally restored from the 'lost' Vaughan Purvis Arctic Archive.

With thanks to the family of the late Pastor Volkmar Schenk, the polar missionary, who is thought to have made prolonged sledge journeys with Purvis in Svalbard and Franz Josef Land.

Without the help and support of Lotte and Traudl Schenk, many of the scenes and situations in these remarkable pictures would have gone unrecognised and unacknowledged - AS

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Travel & Events

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• Vaughan Purvis
• Svalbard
• Spitsbergen
• Spitzbergen
• Fulmardalen
• Agardbukta
• Barentsøya
• Edgeøya
• Storfiorden
• Sabine Land
• Olav V Land
• ski touring
• pulk
• sledge
• sledging
• frost bite
• blizzard
• snow camping
• Svalbad reinder
• polar bears
• ice berg
• sea ice
• ice floes
• pack ice