Last summer I found myself atop a glacier in Svalbard, in the Norwegian archipelago, hoping it wouldn’t calve beneath my feet. I ended up in that spot because I wanted my thesis to revolve around exploration and inhabiting the uninhabitable, so I thought trekking glacial landscapes would come in handy. You are what you do! What I discovered was so much more. Svalbard wasn’t at all what I thought it would be.