![]() ![]() Nevertheless after a short discussion, they decide to go on with the expedition without Teddy. However, their photographer and medico, Teddy Wintringham, had recently been informed of his father’s death, and so that left the team short of a medico. Nevertheless, it was 1937 and the team was now all set to depart for Gruhuken - Miller (in charge of communications), together with Gus Balfour (biologist and expedition leader), Algernon Carlisle (chief huntsman, dog-driver and geologist) and Hugo Charteris-Black (glaciologist). ![]() If he was honest with himself, when Jack Miller, a relatively poor and lonely Londoner, agreed to go on a scientific expedition with a small team of researchers to the desolate island of Gruhuken, located in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway, he had no real idea of what he was getting himself into. First published in October 2010, Malawi born author Michelle Paver’s novel ‘Dark Matter’ was the product of much first-hand research into Spitsbergen and the desolate winter landscape of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. ![]()
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