While a lot is going on in and around Abisko, as can be seen in yesterday’s story, part of the team has ventured further south, to the perhaps even more beautiful moonscape of Tarfala.

Here, a rugged mountain cabin hosts the research team studying some of Sweden’s tallest mountains and biggest glaciers.

For us, it is the vegetation in the glacier forefield that we care about: can we reconstruct the monitoring transect from a set of historical surveys and reconstruct how the vegetation has changed following the inevitable glacial retreat?

A helicopterflight or 24 km long hike away from the nearest road, Tarfala is clearly a notch more adventurous than the Abisko area!

Pictures by Jeanne Terragno