CHEF KRISTEN KISH on SVALBARD

While filming my National Geographic show, Restaurants at the End of the World, in 2022, we visited Isfjord Radio Adventure Hotel in Svalbard, Norway, where chef Rogier Jansen and I went diving for sea urchins in the Arctic Ocean. Two grown-ass men had to help me into this tight, seven-millimeter-thick wetsuit. It covered every part of me, except my nose and eyes, to keep me warm. When we got in the boat, though, the setting felt ominous. It was cloudy, and there was frost smoke rising from the water. We got word that there was a polar bear nearby—we always had a security team on the lookout for them—so we cut the engines and waited to confirm the sighting. It was so quiet that I could hear my heartbeat in…

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Conde Nast Traveler (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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