The melting of the polar ice is a world-wide problem. In the north of Greenland, it leads to radical lifestyle’s changes…and to the opening of new oil fields.


Andrea Gjestcang has spent one month in Siorapaluk, the northernmost village in Greenland. The small village has 73 inhabintants, and is only reached by helicopter.
Twice a week the helicopter arrives in Siorapaluk, with groceries, mail and sometimes passengers. Asiaq (8) watches from the classroom window.
For centuries the Inuit's have lived a traditional life with hunting and fishing, but during the past 5-10 years this has changed. EU rules and catch quotas make it difficult and some places impossible to survive of hunting.
Because of global warming the ice is melting, and climate change influences the hunting and living conditions of these people, so depending on nature.
On the other hand, melting of the polar ice opens for drilling for oil on Greenlandic shelf.