LIGHT fantastic
The powder blue of the vast polar sky is fading into a rose-tinged hue as the sun gently slides towards the horizon.
Under the silvery glow of the pale moon, suspended like a gleaming disc above us, we crunch across a crisp layer of deep snow to where our chariots await – a shiny line of snowmobiles poised to speed us into this icy wilderness.
It’s a magical moment as we fire up the engines and slowly pull away across the milky white expanse into the Norwegian hinterland, revelling in the realisation that there’s nothing else around us – just snow, space and miles of sky.
In a few weeks, 5,000 reindeer will flood onto these ivory slopes when they move from their winter grazing grounds to spend the milder summer months here as the snow melts away to reveal the grasslands beneath.
But for now, the terrain is ours – an immense snowy Sahara stretching as far as the eye can
