Frozen for thousands of miles, snowy.
The cold wind whistles through, and the snow is endless.
It is an inaccessible Arctic Circle with temperatures as low as -60° in winter.
Few people can survive in such a place, unless it is the indigenous people here, and today our story follows the Sami Carl to the Arctic Circle for a gorgeous winter hunt!
Before dawn, Karl and his family set off on a motorboat, and today they return to the site they had marked earlier, the log cabin that was about to be buried by heavy snow, their temporary lounge.
These marks, once flags and once upon a time boulders, are the wisdom of the Sami people handed down from generation to generation.
The Arctic Circle is poorly resourced, and the hope of Karl and his family for a successful winter is all about whether they can successfully fish next.
They dug through the kneeless snow, and the family had a clear division of labor and was quick.
Beneath the snow, there is a solid ice nearly half a meter deep, which is even stronger because of the low temperature all year round.
Karl and his family wrestled with the ice with sharp spears, and the smashing was half a day.
The effort paid off, they finally smashed the ice, and under the ice was flowing seawater, countless fish swimming below, and by the time they were digging the ice cave, Carl's little daughter had already caught several fish with a simple fishing rod.
Karl tells us that the Sami are born with a talent for fishing, and that they have been fighting for thousands of years in a cruel and cold world, and that these survival skills have long been engraved in the depths of their genes.
It's been almost a busy day, and it's time for them to eat. It is difficult to make a fire in the ice and snow, and they are also accustomed to eating cold food.
The Carl family sat around, and today their meal was bread and fresh sea fish.
They remove the heads of the fish and sprinkle a little salt on the fish, which is a rare delicacy.
The family finished eating happily, and the sun was already in the west.
Karl and his family hurriedly put the nets into the sea, and the first net was crucial, because the fish were in a hypoxic environment at this time, and they would rush to the ice cave.
However, the effect of this first net is not as good as expected.
As soon as the net went down, only a few small fish were hit, and these fish were not very large, and after they removed the sea fish from the net, Carl planned to open a larger ice cave the next day.
At night, the Arctic Circle hangs a fierce white hair wind, and it will be dangerous to act rashly at this time.
They pulled the cabin to the ice cave with a motorboat, and several people covered the air outlet under the sled and burrowed into the cabin.
After entering the cabin, we found that this wooden house has a hole in the sky, there is a small wooden door under it, through the small wooden door, they can see the situation in the ice cave directly in the house.
This evening, there are also many things waiting for them.
They put away their nets, and this time the catch was a little better than the last time, but far worse than Karl had planned.
However, Carl's keen sixth sense also made him feel that it would not be long before they could "harvest greatly"!
A stove was raised in the hut, which was much warmer than being in the cold wind, but the water vapor formed by the high temperature was also a little uncomfortable.
However, as Sami people who have lived on the ice for thousands of years, Karl has long been accustomed to this way of life.
After a brief rest in the evening, they began digging larger ice caves the next morning, and Karl began digging not far from the big ice caves.
He told us that this is a small ventilation port, which is simply not enough for the number of fish to breathe, and the fish have changed their breath, and they feel that there is no danger, and they will pounce on the larger ventilation port... That is, the location of the Great Ice Cave.
At this time, there was already an unfolded fishing net under the big ice cave waiting for the fish to breathe greedily.
Just over an hour later, Karl and his family pulled up the net, this time apparently heavier than the previous ones.
It seems that this time the fishing net is not only full of fish, but also a heavy harvest joy.
The family took great pains to pull the fishing net out of the water, and the scene that made everyone happy finally appeared.
The fishing nets bore fruit, and their days of hard work and persistence in the cold wind were not in vain.
The family was so energetic that they sprinkled the fish from their nets on the ice.
The Arctic Circle is a natural cold storage that naturally seals the delicious taste of fish as quickly as possible.
Today, these fish are not only the food of the Carl family, but also a way for them to make money.
As global temperatures rise and technology develops, more and more Sami people are moving away from the ice sheets where they have lived for generations and are beginning to integrate into modern life.
But there are also people who want to inherit the way of life of their ancestors, which is not only the inheritance of their thousands of years of wisdom, but also the embodiment of their simple heart to preserve freshness in the ice field.
The Carl family left some fish for food and sold the remaining marine fish to supplement the family.
This is the great harmony between nature and man, an icefield fishing song that has lasted for thousands of years.