On April 2nd, 2017 Dutch sailing vessel Noorderlicht set sail for an unprecedented winter expedition along the West Coast of Spitsbergen, or: Svalbard. Dutch photographer Martijn Smeets was among the lucky few to take part in this journey. This photography book displays the body of work he shot during this sailing and the adjoining days in Longyearbyen and Barentsburg, as an ode to Noorderlicht and its crew.