Finally Jaime has edited a teaser for our upcoming documentary that will be released in the later part of 2017. Enjoy and check back here for more details on the full release. Paddling The Cold Edge Trailer, a World First Journey in a Land of Ice and Bears : Svalb

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  We are stoked to have the first Feature Article out on our trip placed in Canoe and Kayak Magazine USA. Not only did present an amazing spread in there mag’ showing the photo’s and telling the story of our epic journey, they also put up an awesome interactive online

Jaime is on a tour giving his mixed media talk about the Ice Bear and Islands team’s world first sea kayak circumnavigation of Svalbard Archipelago Norway.   2300km’s, 71 days, 3000 Polar Bears, 160km’s of unbroken Glacial cliffs.   “The talk that must be heard” ~ Je

Our recent successful world first sea kayak circumnavigation of Svalbard Archipelago in Arctic Norway was helped immensely by our use of the Delorme InReach explorer system. The system provided so many useful applications that it became a center piece of our 71 day 2300km trip. “Our w

From the southern end of Edge Oya, we swung our bows west towards our last major challenge, the distant outline of Spitsbergen, 70 kilometers away.  Strangely, like all our open crossings, the weather shifted to calm and we crossed un hindered. Throughout the day the sun slowly droppe

  After reaching our food depot again our trip was really only half over, we still had a Potential months’ worth of paddling left to cover about 1000kms, and time was running out, by September the fall storms would return and even worse, the midnight sun would start dropping belo

  Along the entire North Eastern coast of Nordaustlandet lies one long line of glacial cliffs, which at this latitude stretch nearly an entire parallel. For more than 200km the Austfonna Glacier heaves masses of ice into the Arctic Ocean and guards Svalbard’s shores. From t

The day (or night, it was hard now to tell these days) was sunny and beautiful, the wind had been minimal as we had pushed north with our sea kayaks through the sea ice on the way to a bold and prominent cape jutting out into the arctic sea. I gazed down the open coast inside the sea