Spitsbergen Mountains, SvalbardSvalbard sits at 78 degrees north, and the landscape there has a severity that's hard to convey until you see it for yourself. This is Spitsbergen, the largest island in the archipelago, where dark pyramidal mountains rise straight out of the fjord with glacial remnants clinging to their upper slopes. The light here was flat and diffused under heavy cloud, which is what gives the rock that deep, almost black tonality. No direct sun, no shadows to