In June we flew to Longyearbyen to join the Vavilov for an expedition around Svalbard. Although it was still early in the season there was very little sea ice remaining around the islands. We spent much of the time in Storfjorden looking for bears out on some of the last remaining ice and by the time we left on June 19th that too was almost gone. The trip was organised by Exodus and our photographic guides were Paul Goldstein and Mark Carwardine.