Living in Antarctica

The art project "Resident in Antarctica - a story in words, photography and music".
Maundy Thursday 20.30pm in the basement lounge at Tyinholmen

For 398 days, Tori Flaatten Halvorsen lived at the research station Troll in Dronning Maud Land. At the start of the stay, the sun was up around the clock. There were many people and great activity at the station. But then the last flight with the summer workers took off from the airstrip. Immediately afterwards, the birds flew in the same direction – to the north. The sun disappeared for 70 days before the light from the sun could warm the skin and the surface of the ice again. Six "winterers" lived at the station without having the opportunity to leave there. For eight months, everyone had to manage to endure with the other five - and with themselves.
The experiences became the art project "Living in Antarctica" which is shown in the cellar room on Maundy Thursday at 2030. Large photographs adorn the dining room throughout Easter.

Cecilie and Morten Andvig together with Marit and Anders Odal. The Opdal family has owned Tyinholmen for five generations.

 Easter guests in the fifth generation

Tyinholmen has welcomed Easter guests for over 100 years, and the Andvig family have been faithful Easter guests since the 30s. This year they are coming again, with the siblings Cecilie and Morten Andvig in the lead. In the picture together with Anders and Marit Opdal on the right. The Opdal family has owned Tyinholmen for five generations. On Easter Tuesday, you can hear Morten Andvig talk about his record-breaking expedition to the South Pole in 2008. The foundation was laid on Tyinholmen.

Taken by the mountain home
In the interwar period, Tyinholmen was a classic mountain hotel, and it was where Cecilie and Morten's parents and grandparents spent memorable Easters. Here mother was free to do all the cooking, and here generations of fascination with ski trips in the high mountains were awakened in the Bærum family:

"According to my grandmother, my father was taken from the mountains and steeled by the mountains around Tyinholmen as early as 13-14 years old," says Cecilie, quoting Ibsen:

Now I'm steeled, I feel it,

it offers walking in the height.

I have lived out my lowland life,

up here on the plain is freedom and God,

down there, the others grope…

Record trip to the South Pole

The joy of skiing was inherited, and Morten tells of arduous ski trips from Tyinholmen as a child:
"I started the first long trips in Jotunheimen as a 5-year-old from Tyinholmen with the big glacier trip up Melkedalsbreen and down Uranosbreen. Without spells! The following year I went round trip to Olavsbu. Admittedly with spells.

Morten has been a very active outdoorsman and skier, and at the age of 57 he completed an expedition to the South Pole under the leadership of Sjur Mørdre:
"There were four of us who had the opportunity to take part in a record attempt to the South Pole in 2008. The previous record was held by Cecilie Skog and Rolf Bae of 34 days from 2005. The idea was to go under 30 days - maybe get down to 25 days. The idea was to go easy and fast, says Morten.

On Tuesday 26 March, our guests and other interested parties can see slides and hear Morten tell about the dramatic expedition in the cellar room at Tyinholmen.

Taken by landslide 

Easter 1960 was also dramatic for the Andvig family.
"My father and my brothers Morten and Bjørn, aged just 8 and 11, were caught in a violent avalanche. My brother Bjørn lay under the snow for over 4 hours! It shouldn't be possible to survive, but he did, thanks to good training, good clothes in the quality of the time," says Cecilie.

The landslide and the rescue operation ignited Cecilie's interest in mountain rescue services:
"With my relocation dog, I became Norway's youngest woman with an approved avalanche dog at the age of just 20," she recalls proudly.

A young Cecilie Andvig ready for the Easter mountain!
Morten Andvig on a long trip
To the South Pole in record time. Morten Andvig tells about the expedition on Tuesday 20.30 in the cellar room at Tyinholmen