Last week a two years journey finally reached its end. It started springtime 2006, with Aberia tristis (i.e., Dovyalis zeyheri, Flacourtiaceae), the first of the then estimated 4900 type specimens that was to be included in our part of the African Plants Initiative. It ended last Thursday, when I scanned the 7881:st specimen, a Zygophyllum [...]
For those of you reading Polish, there is a short report on the STJ homepage, written by Karolina, on last summers exploration in Burfjellet. I’m not sure what it says though… For those of you who, like me, don’t read Polish, but still want to now what we did last summer during our (almost) two [...]
This years mountain-camp will be the perhaps most exiting area in Scandinavian caving right now, Burfjellet not far from Mo i Rana. It is an area known for many years, but it was not until the last few years that its potential became apparent! In 2006 the Polish cavers found a deep pitch, but lack [...]
This video from speleologas has everything you want from a music video! The lone man, smoking his waterpipe, heartbroken and teared by his miserable love to two women, a betrayed love, but also a happy end symbolized by wood chopping. But all this would only have been your average, we-have-seen-it-before-love-story, if it wasn’t for the [...]
Jösses, det var inte det här jag hade tänkt mig när Xavier frågade om jag skulle hänga med till Mongoliet sommaren 2008, och jag mest på skämt sa javisst! Xavier träffade jag i köket/matsalen i Leirfjorden skole under fjolårets Tjorveuka, och jag vet inte hur det gick till när vi kom in på nästa års [...]
BBC broadcasted this amazing and really stunning documentary yesterday (April 1, 2008)! Watch it and see for yourself if you ever (as I did for many years) doubted that penguins are birds!
Otroligt! DN har börjat kalla de hålorna medlemmar ur den numera vittkända ryska domedagssekten tänkte vänta ut jordens undergånd i för just det de är: hålor! Detta efter att länge ha skrivit grottor (tillsammans med till exempel Aftonbladet (medan Aftonbladet TV helt riktigt talar om en bunker och förstör lite av min indignation!), SvD, Metro, SVT och [...]
Sometimes you find yourself in the most strange places… (the fun(niest) starts somewhere here)