The mist cleared and the light changed and suddenly there were glaciers for string quartet by Luciano Williamson Score: https://issuu.com/lucianowilliamson/docs/lwilliamson_the_mist_cleared_and_th Violin I - Elliot Kempton Violin II - Lydia Barrington Viola - Mike Cliburn Cello - Samantha Drees In early September 2018 I went to Svalbard for a week. It took 24 hours from take-off at Heathrow to landing in Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost functioning civilian settlement with over 1000 permanent residents, where I stayed with an American dock worker, sleeping on a mattress on his living room floor (while he slept on the sofa; a Norwegian coastguard had rented the bedroom for the week). While I was there the temperature ranged from 1-7ºC, I wasn't allowed out of the town limits without an armed guard in case of polar bear attack, it snowed on the hills around the town, and I hiked across two glaciers and up a mountain. What really struck me during my stay was the everchanging nature of the surrounding landscape. Presumably a result of the extreme weather, it seemed as though everything was different every time I looked, mountains appearing and disappearing of their own accord. One such experience in particular stuck with me; when I first arrived there was a great deal of fog surrounding the town, and I couldn't see all the way up the valley. Some time later it cleared, and when I looked up expecting what I had seen before I instead saw glaciers. It was startling, to say the least.