Áigi (Time)
A reindeer herdsman's life is as gently monotonous as the tundra landscape itself. It flows unhurriedly in synchrony with the life of the reindeer herd from one migration to the other. The whole time span between these…
Burden of a Fire
In 1982, a fire broke out in the Soviet Antarctic research station Vostok and destroyed the station’s power plant. The expedition was left without light or heating right before the four-month long polar night set in,…
Home of the Sun
About 400 years before the birth of Crist, near the village of Kali, on the island of Saaremaa, a gaint meteorite hit the Earth. It`s light, sound and force deeply affected people living hundreds of kilometres away. For…
In the Footsteps of Middendorff
In the middle of the 19th century, A. T. von Middendorff, a Baltic-German scientist, led an expedition to the northernmost place of the Eurasian continent, the Taimyr Peninsula. Being equally adept in ethnology, botany…
The Pigeons
People despise pigeons, the dirty birds picking on leftovers from the trash, always stuttering around the grey apartment houses. The passers-by hush the birds off their way, as they do with people, the ones with tragic…