Our base camp is in Seiland, you can only get there by boat. There is a wooden pier, an 8 km long coastal road that leads nowhere and a handful of houses. The rather large schoolhouse, which is no longer a school but our accommodation, comes as a bit of a surprise. The Seilandhouse is run by Stig and his wife Diamela. “Thirty years ago, the children of fishermen on the surrounding islands came here to school by rowing boat,” explains Stig. There are now hardly any students left; the few remaining go to school in Alta. In 2010, Stig bought the schoolhouse and converted it into accommodation for summer fishing tourism. Since 2024 it has also been hosting ski touring guests. And so we get to live here for a week, letting Stig drop us off in a fjord of our choice every day and pick us up again. Text follows...
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